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W.Va.'s average ACT scores unchanged

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -

Average scores on the ACT exam held steady for West Virginia's 2012 graduating class but remained below the national average.

West Virginia's average composite score was 20.6 on a scale of 1 to 36. That's the same as a year ago. The scores were released Wednesday.

The average national composite store was 21.1.

Sixty-eight percent of graduating West Virginia students took the ACT.

Nationally, it was the first year in which more than half of graduates took the ACT. Traditionally the ACT has been a rival college entrance exam to the SAT, but it is now taken by almost all students in nine states, and by at least 60% of graduates in 26 states.

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