SAT scores are in

California students scored higher than the national average on the SAT, results released today show.

From the L.A. Times:

With 800 points a perfect score in each part of the arduous college entrance test, Californians averaged 500 in critical reading, 513 in math and 498 in writing. The national averages were 501 in critical reading, 515 in math and 493 in writing. Both the state and national averages on the SAT showed small dips from last year.
The California total this year was 1,511, down one point, and the national total average was 1,509, two points lower than last year, the report says. Officials of the College Board, the organization which runs the SAT, described the scores as basically unchanged even as an increasing number of ethnic minority and lower-income students took the 3-hour, 45-minute exam.

More than 1.9 million students took the SAT, which is the most common college entrance exam.