Hello! I have a question for you Oklahomans or individuals who have knowledge of this topic. Let me set the exposition for you.
I scored in the top 5% of Oklahoma on the U.S History EOI administered during April of this year. They haven’t released the full test report yet, but I achieved an advanced (B+ - A+ from what I’m told) on the test. Now, from what I was told and read is, that almost all Oklahoman students either barely passed the test or failed it. Now, do I get some sort of reward or recognition for this achievement? Mention for it? Anything? It really doesn’t matter to me, but it seems as if Oklahoma doesn’t do anything for high school students that excel in their studies. The only time I have ever seen them mention a high school student is either when they’ve committed a crime, or when they want to mention GPA and ACT scores are plummeting.
Anyways, thanks for reading!
The EOIs don’t count for anything, and IMHO aren’t worth mentioning. For 2016 (the most recent year for which data is available on the State Department of Education website), 62% of students scored proficient or better on the US History EOI.
In Oklahoma, about 30,000 kids a year take the ACT. About 40,000 take the US History EOI. Assuming that the highest-performing kids take the ACT, and that the 30k are entirely contained within the 40k (where obviously neither of those assumptions are true, but there’s not really a better set of data available), kids taking the ACT are the top 75% of Oklahoma students. That makes top 5% of the EOI equivalent to about top 6-7% of ACT takers. That’s about a 29 composite ACT.
If you want recognition and really like US history, Oklahoma has a History Day competition. If you want a test score for college admission purposes, there’s the SAT Subject Test in US History.
@allyphoe The recognition really doesn’t matter to me tbqh. I plan on majoring in either astronautical engineering or some sort of biology field. So I really don’t need the score for college haha. Thanks for the response!