“Over the past five years, UC San Diego has experienced a steep decline in the academic preparation of its entering first-year students — particularly in mathematics, but also in writing and language skills,” the report reads.
A quarter of remedial math students can’t solve a first grade math problem. Nearly 10% of remedial math students can’t add integers. Nearly 100% of remedial math students can’t solve an eighth grade math problem.
Standardized testing is relentlessly maligned by those who refuse to accept that some people are smarter than others. And that there are concrete means of measuring that difference.
After UCSD removed standardized testing from admissions consideration, applications shot up 18%.