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The College Board announced that this year’s national average SAT scores dropped for the second year in a row. This comes on the tail of reports that last year’s scores were the lowest in 31 years.  The national critical reading average this year was 502, 1 point lower than last year’s average of 503 (which was down 5 points from the previous year), and the math score declined to 515 from 518 (which was down 2 points from the previous year). The average score on the SAT writing test was 494, 3 points lower than that of the previous year. 

Here are the averages for NY State: the average score for critical reading section fell to 491 from 493, and the score for math dropped to 505 from 510. More New York students than ever took the SAT this year: 157,591or 89 percent of graduating seniors, compared with 88 percent in 2006. New York has the second highest percentage of seniors taking the test in the country, after Maine, which pays for its seniors to take the exams.

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