LANSING – Fewer students took the SAT tests in 2008, but they scored better than the year prior, according to reports released Tuesday – Michigan students again outscored the national average.
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Relatively few Michigan students, 7,178, took the SAT college entrance exam this year. That was down from 9,684 in 2007 and far fewer than the at least 112,000 who took the ACT as part of the Michigan Merit Exam.
But those students also scored relatively well, with average scores of 598 on mathematics, 581 on reading and 572 on writing. Nationally, the averages were 515 for math, 502 for reading and 494 for writing.
The 2008 Michigan students also scored better than their counterparts in 2007, when average scores were 579 for math, 568 for reading and 553 for writing. The national scores were unchanged from 2007 to 2008.
But Michigan showed a larger gender gap than the nation as a whole for math. Boys had average scores of 620 on math, 584 on reading and 566 on writing, while girls scored 579 on math and 578 on both reading and writing. Nationally, the math scores were 533 for boys and 500 for girls, reading was 504 for boys and 500 for girls and writing was 488 for boys and 501 for girls.
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