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...constructing essays, so the addition of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing section, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall, thanks largely to boys? 536 average on the math section, compared with girls? 502. But boys now lead on the reading section by just three points, 505 to 502; that gap was eight points last year. What changed? The new test has no analogies (?bird is to nest? as ?dog is to doghouse?), and boys usually clobbered girls on analogies...
...scores are out, and buried in them is a sign of hope for American education. True, the scores are actually a bit lower than last year?s - the combined average for the SAT?s math and reading sections fell seven points, to 1,021, the biggest single-year decrease since 1975, when the score dropped 16 points, to 1,010. But statistically speaking, a seven-point decline (out of a possible 1,600 on those two sections) isn?t much. It?s less than the value of a single question, which is about 10 points. Also, the SAT radically changed...
Loker Commons: 1. Home of an upcoming on-campus full-time pub thanks to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Zac A Corker ’04. 2. Formerly a deserted hinterland populated by misguided freshman and math nerds on week nights. Longwood: 1. Boston neighborhood home to Harvard Medical School and the Museum of Fine Arts. 2. A half-hour trek away on the free M2 bus. 3. What you will curse when you realize the one book you really need is at Countway Library. Lowell House: 1. Holding a set of Russian...
...does the math, there is a lot of time left each day once classes are said and done. I went from an eight-hour school day in high school to a daily two or three hours of class at Harvard. Factor in a few hours of z’s and meals, and there still remained about 12 hours of the day for me to fill...
...Have fun in Ec 10 (Social Analysis 10, technically), and the biology and math classes that many of you will take as premeds...