Talk about “bursting at the seams.”
So far this fall, record numbers of high-school students all over Washington are enrolling in college-level courses. The College Board also reports that students have been flocking to take the 2014 SAT, PSAT and AP college-entrance examinations. Further, ethnic subgroups across-the-board are contributing to this test-taking boom.
Results from those student-performance tests are a bit of a mixed bag. While SAT and PSAT scores dropped slightly, AP scores of at least “3” increased by 5.7 percent. That “3” score is the mark needed to earn college credit. The SAT and some AP exams were OK’d by the Legislature as alternatives to Washington’s high-school exit exams. A student who doesn’t pass a state exam can apply to use qualifying scores from the SAT or an AP exam to meet the assessment-requirement to graduate.
“Transfer-student waivers” are available in one of the alternatives without the student first taking a state exam in two situations:
- Students who transfer into Washington public schools in 11th or 12th grade from somewhere else.
- Students who transfer into an in-state, non-public school.
For more information, check out:
- The 2014 National results.
- The 2014 School-level results: SAT, PSAT, AP.
- The 2014 District-level results: SAT, PSAT, AP.