I dont know how much of this is true; could be none of it, or some of it, but I can comment on few aspects. Both their buildings bear the name The Madame Curie School, when their business name always has been Curie Learning, leaving everyone pondering why they would invest in expensive signs and different from business name. One their website, at the bottom it says it is powered by GoDaddy. Right above that are two links, one to their facebook page and another to twitter. The twitter link works but just goes to twitter homepage now called X. The facebook page show a picture of a lady who looks like Marie Curie, but she may just be an actor from The Game of Thrones. Regarding payment, some say their TJ prep course fee came down from $200k to $20k, and now down to $5,000, giving everyone hope it may be now $500. By weekend, no one should be surprised if it goes down to 50. And in summary, these are the various aspects why one would be claiming Curie has caused admission changes at TJ. |
Yes of course it's unethical, but they're a business. Most people who do business, especially those working for corporations are doing numerous unethical things each day; a very significant portion of the people on these threads. Curie shouldn't have done that and many of the people reading this should also reconsider whether what they're doing in their life is hurting others. But this was public and obvious because that is what for profit prep companies do. So FCPS was even worse because not only did they not care and just turned a blind eye to it, they never even bothered to help the underepresented minorities who did not have the money or knowledge on how to prep. They could at least have published practice materials to everyone, which would have defeated these prep companies. Moreover, how does one not change a test, it's standard procedure! They have no excuse either because it's not hard at all to write math questions for a one hour exam given once a year, especially with a budget in the billions. |
The AP test industry is unethical, keeps stolen past exam questions compiled as practice tests out of reach of many potential and capable students. Instead of listing these products under sports category right next to basketball shoes, they created a separate category called Books. Imagine the outrageous difficulty that puts for underrepresented minorities (except asian americans) to reach these products. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ap+practice+tests The College Board is even more unethical. One of their team writes questions, and another internal team is stealing those questions unethically and publishing it on their website, for free, can you imagine. Poor minorities cant get find them unless, they go through the hard labor of googling them. https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-calculus-ab/exam/past-exam-questions This is height of unethical behavior. Publishing past exam questions for everyone to see. |
Why the fixation on Curie? have you been through their wringer? |
Who is fixated? Their question-copying is one reason that there is no more math entrance test for TJ. It is what it is. |
Not the PP but providing test questions to those who can afford it did have an impact on TJ. It's largely why its rankings have dropped. |
What? TJ was copying questions from Curie, and that is why there is no more math entrance test? and what went behind dropping science and English tests? |
Delusional much? Not a shred of proof. If you have proof, show it. |
+1000 |
No, bottom 5% at TJ will be in the top 5% at Langley and McLean since so many posters claim that the new TJ admission system vastly improved the quality of the already No. 1 ranked high school in the country TJ even further. |
Can we stop with this nonsense already? It is so childish.
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Those posters are trolls... |
Bottom 5% at TJ have distinct essay writing capabilities, having been selected using new admissions criteria, and can solve any problem including math in essay format Problem: Solve csc 45° Answer: Thank you for the opportunity to solve this problem. This problem is either a geometry, trigonometry, or an algebra problem. To begin with, the problem has the numerical 45 and the tiny circle next to it, so it should be interpreted as an angle. An angle is the space between two intersecting lines, kind of like the letter V, which in this case is 45°. Preceding the 45°, is a space, and before that is the word csc, which obviously is a palindrome.... |
So FCPS decided to use the Quant-Q, which is developed by a third party, in no small part because it was supposed to be secured. It actually was identified by a TJ math teacher and suggested for use because of its strength as a problem-solving evaluator and because no prep materials were available for it. Like many other exams, they have a large bank of questions and multiple forms that they use for their exams year-over-year. The problem with the Quant-Q is that if you prepare a kid for it, it becomes completely useless for its purpose. And if you prepare some kids for it and not others, it occludes the functioning of the admissions process altogether. |
FCPS wasn’t aware of it, I guarantee you, until Curie boasted of 133 admits to TJ’s Class of 2024 and posted the first and last names of the kids who got it. FCPS could not have published prep materials for the Quant-Q because - as I’ve mentioned a thousand times here - everyone who sees the exam is required to sign an NDA agreeing not to discuss it with anyone or share any of its contents. I’ve addressed the issues with changing the exam elsewhere - not repeating it here. |