Was English SOL challenging this time for 7th Graders ?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader is a good reader and smart - The SOL score however is lower than last year's and just barely pass-advanced. I don't know why they cannot release the questions/answers for the students to review and learn from.

I'm in the same place.I have the same question for a very long time . why arent they giving away the test the kids did ?, Its is even much easier since its online . For all these years i literally couldn't understand my child's strengths and weakness . ofcourse at class level test and SOL Pass all the time she gets 100 % , so I can never understand whats something is she struggling when it comes to SOL .

They're assessing if the teachers are adequately teaching the standards. If students are passing sol the assumption is yes.
However, since they spend a month or longer practicing sol type questions in the classroom they are already spending a lot of classroom time toward teaching to the test. The sol questions are weird and the kids get different tests in the same grade, but reuse then for a few years
If they give you the tests you will study the test and invalidate (further?) if the students learned the standard

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My son got a 479, which is around what he gets most years, close to an advanced pass, but never quite there. He was in AAP class in elementary school and is in Honors in 7th grade. He has a 96% in the class, but he is a really excellent writer. His reading comprehension isn't off-the-charts, hence the SOL scores, but he does well in English class because English class is more than just reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader is a good reader and smart - The SOL score however is lower than last year's and just barely pass-advanced. I don't know why they cannot release the questions/answers for the students to review and learn from.

I'm in the same place.I have the same question for a very long time . why arent they giving away the test the kids did ?, Its is even much easier since its online . For all these years i literally couldn't understand my child's strengths and weakness . ofcourse at class level test and SOL Pass all the time she gets 100 % , so I can never understand whats something is she struggling when it comes to SOL .

Because they reuse questions.

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If you say they reuse , I'm wondering will they reuse the entire set ?. Also I see the SOL pass has different sets of question each year

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My DC scored 30 points lower than last year but is still pass advanced, so I also wondered if something was different. 5th grade

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Anonymous wrote:If you say they reuse , I'm wondering will they reuse the entire set ?. Also I see the SOL pass has different sets of question each year

Dp, they definitely reuse. Kids friend got a reading passage this year that my kid got last year

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Anyone notice this with Math SOLs too?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone notice this with Math SOLs too?

That they reuse test questions? Yes.

That scores are lower than usual? Not really. Overall we had the same first round pass rates (both pass and pass advance) as last year, +/- 5%. Not sure if average scores are lower, we don't track that closely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone notice this with Math SOLs too?

That they reuse test questions? Yes.

That scores are lower than usual? Not really. Overall we had the same first round pass rates (both pass and pass advance) as last year, +/- 5%. Not sure if average scores are lower, we don't track that closely.

Yes the math SOL scores being lower than usual as well. Thanks!

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My Kid said 8th grade reading was the easiest they have taken.

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My child is in 7th grade English AAP, scored much lower than previous reading SOL, like 100 points lower. I was a little shocked but he said many of his classmates scored below 500 this year.
But he did score 600 on Algebra HN SOL.
I don’t know if the test standard has changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is in 7th grade English AAP, scored much lower than previous reading SOL, like 100 points lower. I was a little shocked but he said many of his classmates scored below 500 this year.
But he did score 600 on Algebra HN SOL.
I don’t know if the test standard has changed.

Same 600 algebra. 480 English. First time she has had a score below 500. Interesting but it’s just SOL.

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The 7th grade reading SOL seems to be very unfairly scored every year.

All four of my kids, as well as a bunch of each kid's friends, have scored significantly lower on the 7th grade reading SOL than they did on any of their elementary reading SOL tests or their 8th grade reading SOL. I don't understand why the scoring is so difficult on that one test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is in 7th grade English AAP, scored much lower than previous reading SOL, like 100 points lower. I was a little shocked but he said many of his classmates scored below 500 this year.
But he did score 600 on Algebra HN SOL.
I don’t know if the test standard has changed.

Same 600 algebra. 480 English. First time she has had a score below 500. Interesting but it’s just SOL.

Same with us too . DD have never scored anything below 500 last year her English SOL score was 590 . we were surprised to see this years score which is 490 exactly 100 less. our Math Algebra SOL havent come yet .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 7th grade reading SOL seems to be very unfairly scored every year.

All four of my kids, as well as a bunch of each kid's friends, have scored significantly lower on the 7th grade reading SOL than they did on any of their elementary reading SOL tests or their 8th grade reading SOL. I don't understand why the scoring is so difficult on that one test.

The seventh grade reading SOL was my son‘s lowest score of all time, he got 600 this year in eighth grade.