• Females continue to be underrepresented among the highest scorers on the mathematics section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). While 24 percent of males score at or above 600, only 13 percent of females score that high. (For more information see the following: Trends Among Higher Achieving Students: SAT Scores, Scores by Sex and Figure 1-7.)

• The gap between the mathematics scores on the SAT of whites and Asians, on the one hand, and black, Mexican Americans, Latin Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans, on the other hand, is very large. While the overall performance of blacks has improved, there is little progress to report in raising the number of high-scoring blacks. (For more information see: Scores by Race Ethnicity and Figure 1-8.)

• Asians have not only outscored all other groups on the mathematics portion of the SAT from 1987 to 1992, they appear to be widening the gap between themselves and all other groups. The number of Asians scoring 750 or more doubled during the period. (For more information see: Scores by Race/Ethnicity and Figure 1-9.)

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