Middle school magnet testing for Takoma/ Eastern: have you received 'invite'?

[Anonymous]

Our test time is 10a! I guess we need to pack a lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our test time is 10a! I guess we need to pack a lunch.

Or maybe just eat a good "brunch" prior to going and plan on a later lunch after. Doubt they planned a lunch break in the testing time.

[Anonymous]

My DD better get 30 minutes to take a lunch break and call me for a pep talk and some coaching. They can't make these poor kids work 4 straight hours without a treat or something!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD better get 30 minutes to take a lunch break and call me for a pep talk and some coaching. They can't make these poor kids work 4 straight hours without a treat or something!

Haha! You're funny!

[Anonymous]

From the magnet meeting at Blair, didn't they give a rough estimate how many would be invited to test? Does anyone recall that number?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the magnet meeting at Blair, didn't they give a rough estimate how many would be invited to test? Does anyone recall that number?

[Anonymous]

I think they said they didn't know but estimated between 2000-3000 kids.

[Anonymous]

I was told 2 1/2 hours broken up by lunch during the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they said they didn't know but estimated between 2000-3000 kids.

Doesn't seem like an efficient way to screen potential students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they said they didn't know but estimated between 2000-3000 kids.

Doesn't seem like an efficient way to screen potential students.

It's not meant to be efficient. It's meant to cast a larger net, with the hope of finding some talented minority kids who might otherwise have been missed.

[Anonymous]

MCPS does not want kids to prep for this test. But MCPS created a document about getting ready for the magnet test. Our GT liaison in the school showed it to some parents. The test seems to be a combination of SCAT math section and SAT type reading comprehension passages. It seems interesting that this document exists with a title of sotheing like "Getting ready" for magnet tests, but parents do not have access to this information!

[Anonymous]

What if you kid attends a private and you are considering switching?

[Anonymous]

Your?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if you kid attends a private and you are considering switching?

There is a phone number to call. Look at the MCPS web site. It's under the Academics tab and down into the menu for the middle school test in magnet programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS does not want kids to prep for this test. But MCPS created a document about getting ready for the magnet test. Our GT liaison in the school showed it to some parents. The test seems to be a combination of SCAT math section and SAT type reading comprehension passages. It seems interesting that this document exists with a title of sotheing like "Getting ready" for magnet tests, but parents do not have access to this information!

Well, that's interesting, because at the info meeting the MCPS rep specifically said that there would NOT be a math section. That it would be verbal reasoning and spatial (I can't remember the exact word she used, but basically that third category from the elementary GT testing). So this is diametrically different information if accurate.