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Illinois ACT Scores Show Improvement
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' average composite score on the ACT college entrance exam has increased for the third year in a row.

That's according to figures released Wednesday by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The state's composite score for the class of 2009 was 20.8, on the test's scale of 1 to 36. The national average was 21.1.

Illinois students made slight gains or maintained the average scores in all subject areas from 2008 to 2009.

In English, students moved from an average score of 20.4 in 2008 to 20.5 in 2009. In science, average scores went from 20.5 to 20.7, and in reading, they went from 20.6 to 20.8.

Scores in math held steady at 20.7.

Illinois began requiring all 11th-graders in public and private schools to take the ACT in 2002.

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