2024 SOL Geometry

[Anonymous]

I’m glad teacher chimed in. My kid said it was “harder” than the algebra one last year in 7th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m glad you mentioned this because DD has always passed advanced, aced the honors class and scored 499. I was curious to see if the score would change this summer when they norm it.

Is that a thing? So the score may not stay the score?

DS got a 480 and was shocked. He is working hard in the class, like he definitely has to study, but getting As.

Math teacher once again. I’ve never seen a score change in 20+ years. This is why secondary teachers give them out right away.

[Anonymous]

Wish elementary would too, at least for 6th grade advanced math.

[Anonymous]

DD has told me all along that the vast majority of the class struggles with Geometry, WAY more than they did with Algebra I, and she expected the SOL scores to reflect that. Part of that is that their teacher is just not very good.

Additionally, her teacher did not cover certain topics (constructions, for instance; on the answer keys to the sample tests she gave out, she specifically marked these, so I know she's not making that up), and she said that her test had a lot of questions along those lines. She said there were three where she had no idea, couldn't figure out using logic what the answer would be, and guessed. That just about never happens.

She pass advanced, but her score is a good 40 points lower than her norm. Her grade in the class is a 95, and the class average is something like 89.5, but a large segment of the kids did not do well on the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did you make your child take the geometry SOL when they presumably already had a verified credit in Algebra 1?

DP. DD takes the test as a prep for her finals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Same for our 7th grader. Usually gets 600.

This time 568, missing one M question on "Use coordinate methods to identify a transformation." - in all fairness though it's completely possible to miss one question. He also didn't get a 100 average this year, achieving only 3158 out of 3183.5 possible points (= 99.20%) in SiS. 3158 hard earned points, though, when you consider that missing a single answer on a test usually is -6. We're still proud of him.


For 99.20% you don’t need the zero at the end. Just 99.2%. Or even better, round it to whole digits. I promise you, no context will be lost, everyone will still be super-impressed by 99%.

3158 / 3183.5 is
99.198994817%
so 99.20% is correct rounding with sig figs.

99.2% could be as low as 99.15%, which is more than 0.045pp below the actual score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Same for our 7th grader. Usually gets 600.

This time 568, missing one M question on "Use coordinate methods to identify a transformation." - in all fairness though it's completely possible to miss one question. He also didn't get a 100 average this year, achieving only 3158 out of 3183.5 possible points (= 99.20%) in SiS. 3158 hard earned points, though, when you consider that missing a single answer on a test usually is -6. We're still proud of him.

For 99.20% you don’t need the zero at the end. Just 99.2%. Or even better, round it to whole digits. I promise you, no context will be lost, everyone will still be super-impressed by 99%.

3158 / 3183.5 is
99.198994817%
so 99.20% is correct rounding with sig figs.

99.2% could be as low as 99.15%, which is more than 0.045pp below the actual score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Same for our 7th grader. Usually gets 600.

This time 568, missing one M question on "Use coordinate methods to identify a transformation." - in all fairness though it's completely possible to miss one question. He also didn't get a 100 average this year, achieving only 3158 out of 3183.5 possible points (= 99.20%) in SiS. 3158 hard earned points, though, when you consider that missing a single answer on a test usually is -6. We're still proud of him.

For 99.20% you don’t need the zero at the end. Just 99.2%. Or even better, round it to whole digits. I promise you, no context will be lost, everyone will still be super-impressed by 99%.

3158 / 3183.5 is
99.198994817%
so 99.20% is correct rounding with sig figs.

99.2% could be as low as 99.15%, which is more than 0.045pp below the actual score.

Hahaha. Your choice of 2 sig figs is arbitrary. Why stop there? Why not 7? After all, this was hard-earned. I’d expect you to be more precise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Same for our 7th grader. Usually gets 600.

This time 568, missing one M question on "Use coordinate methods to identify a transformation." - in all fairness though it's completely possible to miss one question. He also didn't get a 100 average this year, achieving only 3158 out of 3183.5 possible points (= 99.20%) in SiS. 3158 hard earned points, though, when you consider that missing a single answer on a test usually is -6. We're still proud of him.

For 99.20% you don’t need the zero at the end. Just 99.2%. Or even better, round it to whole digits. I promise you, no context will be lost, everyone will still be super-impressed by 99%.

3158 / 3183.5 is
99.198994817%
so 99.20% is correct rounding with sig figs.

99.2% could be as low as 99.15%, which is more than 0.045pp below the actual score.

Hahaha. Your choice of 2 sig figs is arbitrary. Why stop there? Why not 7? After all, this was hard-earned. I’d expect you to be more precise.

The rounding comes from a Firefox extension I had GPT4 write that scrapes the SIS pages to sum up the points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Same for our 7th grader. Usually gets 600.

This time 568, missing one M question on "Use coordinate methods to identify a transformation." - in all fairness though it's completely possible to miss one question. He also didn't get a 100 average this year, achieving only 3158 out of 3183.5 possible points (= 99.20%) in SiS. 3158 hard earned points, though, when you consider that missing a single answer on a test usually is -6. We're still proud of him.

For 99.20% you don’t need the zero at the end. Just 99.2%. Or even better, round it to whole digits. I promise you, no context will be lost, everyone will still be super-impressed by 99%.

3158 / 3183.5 is
99.198994817%
so 99.20% is correct rounding with sig figs.

99.2% could be as low as 99.15%, which is more than 0.045pp below the actual score.

Hahaha. Your choice of 2 sig figs is arbitrary. Why stop there? Why not 7? After all, this was hard-earned. I’d expect you to be more precise.

Your attempt at joking shows that you have not reached the pinnacle of helicopter parenting, which is to study your school district's rounding policy.

[Anonymous]

This thread is peak NoVa type A parenting.

[Anonymous]

There is no”did not do well on the test” for a sol. Because all that really matters is that they pass and that is only if they didn’t get the HS verified credit in Algebra 1.
There is :not passing, pass or pass advance. Stop trying to justify a score that is not passing. Or blame a teacher. Their final won’t be anything like a sol. Most likely no multiple choice questions( most Honors classes at least or maybe just a few for regular Geometry).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is peak NoVa type A parenting.

Yes, but it is so entertaining (roughly 99.200% on the absolute fun scale) 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no”did not do well on the test” for a sol. Because all that really matters is that they pass and that is only if they didn’t get the HS verified credit in Algebra 1.
There is :not passing, pass or pass advance. Stop trying to justify a score that is not passing. Or blame a teacher. Their final won’t be anything like a sol. Most likely no multiple choice questions( most Honors classes at least or maybe just a few for regular Geometry).

+1 I don’t get why these kids took the Geometry SOL in the first place as it wasn’t required. We will be opting out now that DS has his math verified credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no”did not do well on the test” for a sol. Because all that really matters is that they pass and that is only if they didn’t get the HS verified credit in Algebra 1.
There is :not passing, pass or pass advance. Stop trying to justify a score that is not passing. Or blame a teacher. Their final won’t be anything like a sol. Most likely no multiple choice questions( most Honors classes at least or maybe just a few for regular Geometry).

+1 I don’t get why these kids took the Geometry SOL in the first place as it wasn’t required. We will be opting out now that DS has his math verified credit.

Will you be opting them out of the PSATs too? Both are tests taken in the school day and don’t matter for college. You can keep your kid home or request them go to a different room for a study hall if you really want.