The College Board has released its annual report on the scores of graduating high school seniors in the Class of 2025 on the SAT college entrance examination. Slightly more than one million women in the Class of 2022 took the test. Slightly fewer men took the SAT
Nine years ago The College Board “redesigned” the SAT and therefore it claims that current scores cannot be compared to those from the past. Scores on the redesigned test are significantly higher than those from previous years.
Each of the two sections of the SAT is scored on a scale of 200 to 800 points. This year women had a mean score of 522 on the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing test. This was just 2 points higher than the mean score for men. On the Mathematics Section, women scored an average of 500. This was 15 points lower than the mean score for men. Thus, on the combined test, women had a mean score of 1022 and men had a mean score of 1035. Although the redesigned SAT shows higher overall scores, the gender gap remains about the same.
The results showed that 42 percent of men and 36 percent of women met the college and career readiness benchmark for both reading and mathematics. The benchmark score is associated with a 75 percent chance of earning at least a C in a first-semester, credit-bearing, college-level course.
More than 35 percent of men and and 34 percent of women test takers did not make the readiness benchmark in either reading or mathematics.
Men were 50 percent more likely than women to score in the 1400-1600 range, scores typically required for admission to the nation’s most selective colleges and universities.