2013 SAT test results show that a huge math gender gap persists with a 32-point advantage for high school boys | AEIdeas
April 23, 2014
1. Continuing an uninterrupted trend that dates back to at least 1972, high school boys outperformed girls on the 2013 SAT math test with an average score of 531 points compared to the average score of 499 for females, see top chart above. The statistically significant 32-point male advantage this year on the SAT math test is one point lower than the 33-point difference last year, and just slightly below the 34.3 point difference over the last two decades favoring boys.
2. For scores in the highest 100-point range of 700-800 on the 2013 math SAT test, boys outnumbered girls by 74,461 to 46,040, which would mean that there were 162 boys for every 100 girls scoring at 700 points or above.
As SAT math scores increased by 10-point intervals from 590 to 800, the male-female ratio increased in almost all cases, reaching a peak male-female ratio of 2-to-1 for test scores of 790.
