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Fewer High School Seniors Ready for College as ACT Scores ...


Fewer High School Seniors Ready for College as ACT Scores ...

The average Composite score on the ACT test fell to 19.5 for the class of 2023, a decline of 0.3 points from 2022, according to data released today by ACT.

Fewer seniors ready for college as ACT scores continue to decline

The graduating class of 2023 were in their first year of high school when the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. The proportion of “COVID cohort ...

High School Students Think They Are Ready for College. But They ...

But students' college readiness has reached historic lows, according to several metrics—including the lowest scores in 30 years on the ACT and ...

Are High School Graduates Ready For College? - Forbes

Graduates generally have a collective illusion about their college readiness. Almost nine out of 10 2023 seniors (86%)—the class that started ...

Fewer High School Seniors Ready for College as ACT Scores ...

The proportion of “COVID cohort” seniors meeting none of the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks reached historic highs in 2023. Twenty-one percent ...

ACT scores show college readiness at 32-year low - The Hill

High school students' scores on the ACT college admissions test for 2023 dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of ...

New Post-COVID Study Finds High School GPA is Becoming a Less ...

The research found a rise in the mean HSGPA from 3.44 in 2017 to 3.59 in 2021. At the same time, ACT Composite scores decreased from 22.51 in ...

ACT: Only 1 in 5 High School Graduates in 2023 Fully Prepared for ...

Five-year trends showing the percent of students who met college readiness benchmarks ... Scores fell across all four core subjects—reading, ...

Iowa ACT scores hit 10 year low as fewer seniors are ready for college

Data released from ACT shows fewer high school seniors are ready for college, as ACT scores are declining. According to data released by ACT ...

ACT Scores Fell for Class of 2023, Sixth Consecutive Decline - WSJ

The average score on the ACT dropped to a new 30-year low, indicating fewer high-school seniors are ready for college.

ACT test scores decline for sixth straight year, which officials say ...

High school students' scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness.

ACT scores hit 30-year low - LinkedIn

Are US students ready for college? ACT scores had been on the downslide for six years already, but the pandemic seems to have exacerbated ...

ACT test scores for US students drop to new 30-year low | AP News

High school students' scores on the ACT college admissions test have ... college courses and preparing academic advisors to better support ...

Most high school seniors are not college-ready

The recently released 11th grade ACT scores for Arkansas' current high school seniors show that only 1 in 5 members of the class of 2023 met the test's College ...

ACT CEO on declining ACT test for 2023 | ACT posted on the topic

Many states have shifted to having ALL students in high school take the ACT, if they wish to go to college or not. How has this impacted ACT ...

About 375,000 fewer students took the ACT in 2021, average score ...

About 1.3 million high school students graduating in 2021 took the ACT exam, about 375,000 fewer than the previous year, suggesting the pandemic ...

ACT shows decline in students ready for college - Inside Higher Ed

No gains have been made in student preparedness for college, according to ACT data. There are still gaps in scores between white and ...

Why High School Graduates Turn Out to Be College Illiterates

Janet Godwin, the head of the ACT, told Education Week: “Fewer students leaving high school are meeting all four college readiness benchmarks [ ...

Who is Likely to Graduate High School Ready for College? - ACT

Students meeting the ACT Benchmarks are less likely to take remedial courses and more likely to enroll immediately in college after high school, persist in ...

Test scores don't stack up to GPAs in predicting college success

The authors were also surprised to find that, at some high schools, students with the highest ACT scores were less likely to succeed in college.