UCSD students w/o 8th Grade Math Skills Skyrockets

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reveals that the percentage of incoming students scoring below Algebra 1 on placement exams"a math course typically completed by the end of eighth grade"has tripled over the past five years.

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America schools K-12 are failing the children.

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You're the failure, you fucking sad joke.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-12 08:09 PM | Reply

At least we know where he went to school now...

Of course American schools are failing children... duh.

If children grow up to graduate college, they become Democrats at threateningly high rates... and if you think CA is bad, you should see most Red States that the OP didn't cherry pick to make his Troll Bonus tonight.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-12 09:48 PM | Reply

If children grow up to graduate college, ....

Why would you want America to "graduate" idiots? Just to vote Democrat? Makes no sense.

UCSD report: "At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school[!] standards grew nearly thirtyfold, despite almost all of these students having taken beyond the minimum UCOP required math curriculum, and many with high grades."

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-12 10:47 PM | Reply

and if you think CA is bad, you should see most Red States that the OP didn't cherry pick to make his Troll Bonus tonight.

Nice whataboutism, America's greatest University system is shit, but here's more worse shit ...

Great defense of people going into debt for half of their lives.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-12 10:49 PM | Reply

you should see most Red States that the OP didn't cherry pick

The report is the report, feel free to dig up more reports, I don't have a problem with it.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-12 10:50 PM | Reply