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Students' scores in the verbal section of the test hit a 16-year high.
Both the average math (519) and verbal (507) scores were up three points from last year.
The College Board said tThis is where the content goes at the front pagehe higher scores were due to increased participation in advanced math and science courses such as physics, precalculus, calculus and chemistry.
Although there is no data to support it, Caperton believes high-tech toys that introduce young children to math and the computer programs that later help them to retain their interest in the subject have also helped boost math scores.
Overall, some 1.4 million students in the class of 2003 took the SAT during their high school career, and SAT scores play a role in the admissions process at 80 percent of the nation's colleges and universities.
The math and verbal sections of the SAT are each graded on 200-800 point scale. A total of 897 students in the United States had a perfect cumulative score of 1,600 this year.
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