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284. Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and Reasoning Test (SAT I) Scores and Characteristics of College-Bound Seniors

[For school year ending in year shown. Data are for theSAT I: Reasoning Tests. SAT I: Reasoning Test replaced the SAT in March 1994.Scores between the two tests have been equated to the same200-800 scale and are thus comparable. Scores for 1995 and prior years have been recenteredand revised]

 
Type of test and
Characteristic Unit 1967 1970 1975 1980 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
 
AVERAGE TEST SCORES 1
 
  Verbal, total 2 Point 543 537 512 502 509 509 507 505 504 500 499 500 500 499 504 505 505 505 505
Male Point 540 536 515 506 514 515 512 512 510 505 503 504 504 501 505 507 507 509 509
Female Point 545 538 509 498 503 504 502 499 498 496 495 496 497 497 502 503 503 502 502
  Math, total 2 Point 516 512 498 492 500 500 501 501 502 501 500 501 503 504 506 508 511 512 511
Male Point 535 531 518 515 522 523 523 521 523 521 520 521 524 523 525 527 530 531 531
Female Point 495 493 479 473 480 479 481 483 482 483 482 484 484 487 490 492 494 496 495
 
PARTICIPANTS
 
    Total 3 1,000 (NA) (NA) 996 922 977 1,001 1,080 1,134 1,088 1,026 1,033 1,034 1,044 1,050 1,068 1,085 1,127 1,173 1,229
Male Percent (NA) (NA) 49.9 48.2 48.3 48.1 48.2 48.0 47.9 47.8 47.8 47.6 47.4 46.9 46.4 46.5 46.1 46.2 46.1
White Percent (NA) (NA) 86.0 82.1 81.0 (NA) 78.2 77.0 74.7 73.0 72.0 71.5 70.4 69.4 69.2 68.7 68.0 67.0 66.9
Black Percent (NA) (NA) 7.9 9.1 7.5 (NA) 8.7 9.2 9.6 10.0 10.5 10.4 10.8 10.8 10.7 10.8 10.8 11.0 11.1
 
Obtaining scores 1 of--
  600 or above:
    Verbal Percent (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 21.9 21.9 21.7 20.3 20.2 20.5 20.9 21.1 21.9 21.1 20.9 21.0 21.2
    Math Percent (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) 20.4 19.6 19.9 20.4 19.7 20.0 20.7 22.0 23.4 22.7 23.4 23.7 23.7
  Below 400: </