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Percent of students in the United States deemed college ready in all
four tested areas for 2011

Asian - 41%
White - 31%
All students - 25%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander - 15%
American Indian/Alaska Native - 11%
Hispanic/Latino - 11%
Black/African-American - 4%

Note: The ACT designated as ready high-school students who met minimum
benchmark scores on its subject-area tests. Those scores were set to
indicate a 50-percent chance of obtaining a grade of B or higher or
about a 75-percent chance of obtaining a C or higher in a credit-
bearing college course requiring skills in that subject area.

Average composite scores on the ACT by sex and race/ethnicity, 2011

Men - 21.2
Women - 21.0
Asian - 23.6
White - 22.4
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander - 19.5
Hispanic/Latino - 18.7
American Indian/Alaska Native - 18.6
Black/African-American - 17.0
All students - 21.1
Note: The ACT exam is scored on a scale from 1 to 36.

Source: ACT

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