Students Ill-Prepared for College, ACT Warns

Testing Service Exhorts K-12 System to Make Coursework More Rigorous

By Sean Cavanagh

A majority of the students who took the nation’s second-most-popular college-admissions test before they graduated this year were far from ready for the academic rigors awaiting them on higher education campuses, a study shows.

Seventy-eight percent of students who took the ACT were not prepared for college-level biology, algebra, or English-composition classes, according to the report released last week by the Iowa...

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