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Texas students' SAT scores slide in all three subjects 10:02 AM CT | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Texas students' SAT scores slide in all three subjects 10:02 AM CT | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Texas students' SAT scores slide in all three subjects 10:02 AM CT

10:24 AM CDT on Monday, September 13, 2010

By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News,br>tstutz@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – Texas students slipped in all three subjects on the SAT this year, widening the long-running gap between them and their counterparts across the country on the college entrance exam.

A report from the College Board on Monday showed that Texas scores dropped two points in both reading (484) and writing (473), and one point in math (505). The national averages increased a point in math to 516 and remained unchanged in reading at 501. The writing average dipped a point to 492.

Each section of the SAT has a maximum score of 800.

As in previous years, students who completed a core curriculum – at least four years of English and three years each of math, science and social studies – did significantly better on the