Table 135. | American College Testing (ACT) score averages and standard deviations, by sex: Selected years, 1995 to 2002 |
_________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Number || Standard deviation Type of test |______________________________________||_____________________________ |1995|1997|1998|1999 |2000 |2001 |2002 ||1997|1998|1999|2000|2001|2002 ___________________________|____|____|____|_____|_____|_____|_____||____|____|____|____|____|____ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 || 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 ___________________________|____|____|____|_____|_____|_____|_____||____|____|____|____|____|____ Participants: | | | | | | | || | | | | | Total (in thousands) ....| 945| 959| 995|1,019|1,065|1,070|1,116|| † | † | † | † | † | † |____|____|____|_____|_____|_____|_____||____|____|____|____|____|____ | Average test score\1\ || |______________ _____ _________________||_______________________________ Composite, total ........|20.8|21.0|21.0| 21.0| 21.0| 21.0| 20.8|| 4.7| 4.7| 4.7| 4.7| 4.7| 4.8 Male ..................|21.0|21.1|21.2| 21.1| 21.2| 21.1| 20.9|| 4.9| 4.9| 4.9| 4.9| 4.9| 5.0 Female ................|20.7|20.8|20.9| 20.9| 20.9| 20.9| 20.7|| 4.6| 4.6| 4.6| 4.6| 4.6| 4.7 | | | | | | | || | | | | | English, total ............|20.2|20.3|20.4| 20.5| 20.5| 20.5| 20.2|| 5.4| 5.4| 5.5| 5.5| 5.6| 5.8 Male ....................|19.8|19.9|19.9| 20.0| 20.0| 20.0| 19.7|| 5.4| 5.4| 5.5| 5.6| 5.6| 5.8 Female ..................|20.6|20.7|20.8| 20.9| 20.9| 20.8| 20.6|| 5.4| 5.4| 5.5| 5.5| 5.6| 5.7 | | | | | | | || | | | | | Mathematics, total ........|20.2|20.6|20.8| 20.7| 20.7| 20.7| 20.6|| 5.0| 5.1| 5.0| 5.0| 5.0| 5.0 Male ....................|20.9|21.3|21.5| 21.4| 21.4| 21.4| 21.2|| 5.2| 5.3| 5.2| 5.2| 5.2| 5.3 Female ..................|19.7|20.1|20.2| 20.2| 20.2| 20.2| 20.1|| 4.7| 4.8| 4.7| 4.8| 4.7| 4.8 | | | | | | | || | | | | | Reading, total ............|21.3|21.3|21.4| 21.4| 21.4| 21.3| 21.1|| 6.1| 6.0| 6.0| 6.1| 6.0| 6.1 Male ....................|21.1|21.2|21.1| 21.1| 21.2| 21.1| 20.9|| 6.1| 6.2| 6.1| 6.1| 6.1| 6.3 Female ..................|21.4|21.5|21.6| 21.6| 21.5| 21.5| 21.3|| 6.0| 5.9| 5.9| 6.0| 6.0| 6.1 | | | | | | | || | | | | | Science reasoning, total ..|21.0|21.1|21.1| 21.0| 21.0| 21.0| 20.8|| 4.7| 4.6| 4.5| 4.5| 4.6| 4.6 Male ....................|21.6|21.7|21.8| 21.5| 21.6| 21.6| 21.3|| 4.9| 4.9| 4.8| 4.8| 4.9| 4.9 Female ..................|20.5|20.6|20.6| 20.6| 20.6| 20.6| 20.4|| 4.4| 4.3| 4.2| 4.3| 4.3| 4.3 |____|____|____|_____|_____|_____|_____||____|____|____|____|____|____ | Percent || |__________________________ _____ _____||____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ Obtaining composite | | | | | | | || | | | | | scores of-- | | | | | | | || | | | | | 27 or above\2\.............| 12| 10| 10| 10| 10| 10| 10|| † | † | † | † | † | † 18 or below\3\.............| 35| 26| 25| 25| 25| 25| 27|| † | † | † | † | † | † | | | | | | | || | | | | | Planned major field of | | | | | | | || | | | | | of study | | | | | | | || | | | | | Business\4\ .............| 13| 12| 12| 12| 11| 11| 10|| † | † | † | † | † | † Engineering\5\ ..........| 8| 8| 8| 8| 8| 7| 7|| † | † | † | † | † | † Social science\6\ .......| 9| 9| 9| 9| 9| 9| 8|| † | † | † | † | † | † Education\7\ ............| 8| 9| 9| 9| 9| 8| 8|| † | † | † | † | † | † ___________________________|____|____|____|_____|_____|_____|_____||____|____|____|____|____|____ |
† Not applicable. SOURCE: The American College Testing program, High School Profile Report, selected years 1995 through 2002. (This table was prepared June 2003.)
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