SAT Reading Scores Are the Lowest They’ve Been in 40 Years

Coming in with an average SAT reading score of 496, 2012’s graduating seniors have the dubious distinction of having attained the worst reading score since 1972. (For those test-takers of a certain age and test-taking history, “reading” is actually that part we knew as “verbal.”)

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   I’m going to insert the biggest rant concerning this meaningless test as well as other piece of shit tests as soon as...

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   This is utterly meaningless; we’re allowing test such as SAT’s to determine the level of potential our students have as...

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    this is so fucking embarrassing.

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    wow so the atlantic is behind on the fact that the SATs are a total load of horseshit? the secret is out guys. you can...

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    AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

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    Ok, got the Senior Portraits done, now…make it so my step-son singlehandidly brings up the average.

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    ughhhhhhhhh

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    Brown writes that the reading scores may have been affected by minority test takers, who came out and took the test in...

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