This generation probably realizes that college is an overpriced scam and humanity is probably fucked, so the test is irrelevant.
That doesn't track. Why pay money and schedule a date to do poorly on the ACT? Should the scores not go up if only the people who know they are going to college take the test?
In my state every high school junior takes the SAT, I assume there are states that use the ACT.
Is the test paid for by the school district and/or part of the mandatory curriculum requirements for graduation?
The state pays for it, it's what they use to fulfill testing requirements for that grade.
At my high school, everyone was required to take the ACT. It didn't matter if you were planning to go to college or not.
Obviously if you force people to take the test then the averages will go down...
Why should it though? It's assessing fairly basic levels of reading and math comprehension.
Before the test was mandatory, people only took the test if they thought they needed for entry to college. Now there are more people who don't want to go to college yet still must take the test. It's logical to assume that the people who would not go to college or feel that the test is a waste of their time will not perform as well as the people who view it as a barrier that they must cross for their desired life outcome. The simplicity of the test doesn't really matter.
People actually trying? They may know it, but won’t bother.
This class did a big chunk of their highschool through the pandemic didn't they? I imagine they probably are a bit behind because of it.
Did it go from 20.5 to 19.5? I think we'll survive this.
Well, I don't know about you, but I haven't been particularly impressed by the results that an already dumb populace has achieved recently in America. So America getting even dumber doesn't particularly bode well...
We ought to be concerned about the numbers even if there's not much we can do about the kids entering adulthood.
The plan is apparently working. Dumb people make better conservatives.
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