83 Percent of NM Grads Need Remedial Work

Capitol Report New Mexico - According to a national survey released Wednesday (Aug. 17) by the non-profit testing organization ACT, a whopping 75 percent of all US high school graduates will likely need to take at least one remedial class, brushing up on high school-level work, when they enter college. The number for New Mexico is worse: 83 percent need to take at least one remedial class. The ACT report comes after 13,599 New Mexico high school graduates took the ACT, which — along with the SAT — is one of the most widely-used entrance examinations that colleges and universities measure for incoming freshman. The ACT survey measured English, math, reading and science and New Mexico finished in the bottom seven states (plus the District of Columbia) in all four categories, with just 17 percent expected to need no remedial classes in the four categories in the study: News New Mexico

83 Percent of NM Grads Need Remedial Work