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Anonymous wrote:What is considered a score strong enough for top schools, 6th grade entry? DD took the test this summer. She received a 7 in reading comp, 7 in math (which I don't understand because she only got two problems wrong and was in the 84th percentile), 5 in quantitative reasoning, and 5 in verbal. For verbal, almost all points were off on vocab, which seems really hard to prep for. I'm trying to decide whether she needs to take it again.
These scores are only one part of the process. If you follow all these private school testing threads you will see it all: kids with very low scores who get into top schools, kids with very high scores who get shut out everywhere, and everything in between. The schools suggest, and so you should believe, that there is a basic threshold overall above which you are fine, box checked, and then they look at everything else, and below it they also look at everything else, which may be enough for them to ignore the score. It truly seems to e the least important of the admissions factors.
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