European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday september 22,1986 agencies report sat7 act scores new York up the 1986 rational average sat scores were unchanged from last year the College Board said sunday. Bui other High school students who took act College admissions Tesja achieved he highest a Lionel average in a decade. The average for More than 1 million Scholastie aptitude test lakers from the High school class of 1986 was 431 on the verbal lest and 475 on the math lest out of a total 800 Points the same As 1985. The average for nearly i million youths who Icyk Itu american College testing exams was 18.8 out of a possible 36. Up 0.2 from 1985. As usual the boys beat the girls on both tests. It was the second year that both col lege admissions testing agencies reported scores simultaneously. Sat and act figure their scores with different statistics sat sponsored by the College Hoard based in new York City figures scores on a scale of 200 to 800. Act based in Iowa City Iowa scores from i to 3d. Act president Oluf a Davidson noting that the act Rise was statistically significant said there have been Small but steady increases in average scores for the past five years and inc 1986 score is the highest we have seen in a  the i9b6 National sat averages arc 74 Points below jews 47b verbal 502, math. A Long slide after that year after year was a Factor in triggering the nationwide school Reform movement. Sat averages bottomed out in 1981 at 424, verbal 466, math. Since then up until 1986 rises of one or so Points have been recorded annually As has been the pattern for years males in 1986 outpaced females in sat and act tests. On the sat males scored a National average of 417, verbal 501, math. Pc male average scores v,erc426, verbal451, math. Among act esl Lake to boys scored 19,6 to 18.1 for girls. The act averages male is. Female on various tests in Gish 17.9 is. 18.9 inc Only lest with girls ahead math  is. 16.d social studies 18.6 is. 16.9 natural sciences 22.7 is. 20.2. Men have been scoring better in everything but English and we sure Don t know Why said Patricia Farrall act s assistant vice president for Public affairs. Act tests Given in All states arc pop ular in the Midwest South and far West. Sat tests also Given nationwide arc most widely used in inc Northeast. The College Board also reported that average scores on 14 achievement tests taken by 21 percent of sat takers remained the same As last years 540. Ten year sat score trends show the greatest gain during the decade ending in 1986 17 Points on inc math and 17 Points on the verbal was among Stu dents at the Bottom of their class. This indicates that students Ai the lower end arc doing much better Fred Moreno the Board s assistant director of Public affairs said. It must mean that they arc doing better work in  for comparison among students in the top tenth of their classes the 10-year sat average dropped 10 Points verbal i Point math. The act averages for 1986, compared to 1985, for English 18.5 to 18.1 for math 17,3 to i 7,2 for social studies 17,6 to 17.4 for natural sciences 21.410 21. Act averages for minorities in the biggest Rise among average scores showed gains from five tenths to six tenths of a percent the minorities As categorized by act showed Oriental and Pacific americans scored 19.6 puerto Kicanas and other hispanics 16.5mexican americans and Chicano is.2 american Indian and alaskan natives 14.4 and afro american Blacks 13,0. Tough Job on the face of it up photo a construction worker brutes 35-Mph winds in new York City to install an in Root watch face for Rio a new Man Hattan condominium. The watch s 50 f Mil band forms a covering for the building s pedestrian Walkway. Heart bypass monitoring training criticized Lexington. By. Up More Ihan 1,000 people a year nationwide die unnecessarily from the most common major operation in America today coronary bypass surgery say researchers and heart specialists. At the Core of the problem is an ineffective monitoring system of the proce Dure and a Lack of Well trained medical personnel according to a Story in Sun Day s Lexington Herald Leader. The survival difference of medicare coronary bypass patients can be dramatic depending on what Hospital per formed the surgery. At memorial Hospi Tal in South Bend. Ind one out of every four medicare a aliens died before they icel the Hospital. Eighty Miles away in fort Wayne one Oul of Hie 78 patients admitted in 1984 for the operation died. 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It has been clearly demonstrated that it can be done More safely than  in fact More than 25 percent of Hospi tals performing medicare bypasses Are losing no More than four medicare patients out of every 100. If the National death rate had been reduced to thai level 1,000 lives could have been saved by 1984. But one of the problems critics say is thai no Federal or slate Agency regularly checks on hospitals with higher than a Crage death rates. 4-Necessarv losses by Judith toral 5"and so it goes by urfa Elarba 6rock Hudson his Story Fry rack Hudson ind Saran fion 7-when All you be Ever wanted in t enough try Harold 3. Kugh Rai a Ford. The men and the machine Fry Rotor lac0vsthe Man who mistook his wife Foh a hat by cd Norsari 10a cast of killers by Eldoy d. Kirkpa Riek 11 my Floyl his life Ano times by . 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