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October 15,1982
Minorities gain on SAT
United Press International
NEW YORK — Minority stu
dents — especially blacks —
made bigger gains than whites in
SAT scores for 1982, boosting
overall averages so much a 19-
year decline in test results was
reversed, the College Board
says.
The gap between minorities
and whites is narrowing at a fair
ly steady pace and has been for
six years, said Board President
George H. Hanford Wednes
day, despite the fact blacks have
lagged behind whites in verbal
and math scores by around 100
points for years.
Average SAT scores for 1982
squeaked up three points, halt
ing a decline that started in
1963. About 1 million college-
bound students take the $9.95
aptitude tests annually.
For most minority groups,
the improvement from 1981 to
1982 was larger than the three-
point gain overall and it was
largest for blacks. Blacks' verbal
scores rose nine points; mathe
matical, four.
For blacks, the verbal scores
rose from 332 to 341; for Mex
ican-Americans, from 371 to
377. For Orientals, verbal scores
dipped from 414 to 398; for
Puerto Ricans, they went from
364 to 360.
On math, blacks went up an
average of 354 to 356; Mexican-
By comparison, whites’ aver
age scores gained two points in
verbal and stayed the same in
math, the College Board said.
Between 1976 and 1982 when
scores for whites declined from
451 to 444 on the verbal section
and from 493 to 483 on the math
section, scores for most minority
groups rose.
Americans, from 410 to 416;
American Indians, from 420 to
424; Puerto Ricans, from 401 to
403.
“The increase in average
scores for the nation’s college-
bound seniors was due signifi
cantly to improvements in
minority-group scores," the
Board said.
Hanford said the trend td
higher average minority scora
does not alter the overall dispan
ity between their scores and
those of whites.
“The overall disparity in
scores reflects an educations
deficit the nation must oven
come,” he said.
Experts blamed the disparity
on a lack of equal educating
opportunities for blacks and
other minorities and Hanford
said differences in scores be
tween minority groups and
whites are still significant.
The tests are scored from‘200
to 800. Scores in upper ranges I
are required for admission to
the most prestigious colleges.
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offering of oil-rich leases in the
icy Arctic Ocean to increase
domestic oil production could
be a first step to answering con
sumers’ demands for affordable
energy, Interior Secretary
James Watt says.
Twenty-eight U.S. oil com
panies qualified to bid Wednes
day on 338 oil-rich tracts in the
Diapir Field in the Beaufort Sea,
37 miles off Alaska’s northern
coast.
Watt said the offering of
leases in the field, which was esti
mated to contain 4.7 billion bar
rels of petroleum, was a victory
for consumers.
“This is the largest scale fron
tier sale the Reagan administra
tion has approved,” he said
Wednesday. “We must open up
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