This article by Julia Ryan posted in The Atlantic talks regarding to the scores on the SAT, and its below average scores for the year of 2013. The article initially starts talking about the 1.66 million high school students that took the test in 2013 and only 43 percent of them are above the "academically prepared for college-level work" category. The scores above 1550 are considered in that category and it is approximated that a student with such a score will have at least a B- average throughout the freshman year. Ryan based off the second part of her article on a sentence "Although the SAT takers in the class of 2013 were the most diverse group of test takers ever, the report showed that minority students’ scores have only slightly improved in the past year." After this sentence her article takes another track, it starts talking about the statistics of different races and their average scores. The scored were based on 3 different areas, if the students took The Core Curriculum, AP and Honor Courses, and Reported an A average GPA.
The article is overall very informative, it is full of statistics and contains two graphs, showing a lot of credibility. The author does a great job explaining the statistics instead of just putting it out there to us. Although the author writes with proficiency it started off well but ended off track. The initial idea of talking about the SAT scores decrease throughout the years turned into the difference of scores between races. The articles conclusion contains a graph, it lacked a final statement or a idea, connecting the thesis to the whole essay, wrapping up the ideas.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/this-years-sat-scores-are-out-and-theyre-grim/279999/
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