PSAT cancelled for today?

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Anonymous wrote:Our school changed to a 2-hour delay schedule instead.

How can they do that last minute?

Most of the kids were already there?

Freshman and seniors are not there. That’s 1/2 the school

My freshman is taking the psat today. Or they were

Are all freshman taking it?

Private schools allow the freshman to take PSAT's. Publics do not

That's not true. Our school made it available to all students. 10th graders were registered automatically and paid for by MCPS. 9th, 11th, and 12th graders could choose to take it but had to pay the registration fees.

Yes, it was the same at our high school as well.

Yet no one is stating who these magical MCPS are.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school changed to a 2-hour delay schedule instead.

How can they do that last minute?

Most of the kids were already there?

Freshman and seniors are not there. That’s 1/2 the school

My freshman is taking the psat today. Or they were

Are all freshman taking it?

Private schools allow the freshman to take PSAT's. Publics do not

That's not true. Our school made it available to all students. 10th graders were registered automatically and paid for by MCPS. 9th, 11th, and 12th graders could choose to take it but had to pay the registration fees.

Yes, it was the same at our high school as well.

Yet no one is stating who these magical MCPS are.

Quince Orchard is pretty magical I guess. My 9th graders took the PSAT. And no system outage. Double magic.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I’m surprised to see this. The “nationwide issue” was basically server overload of teacher proctors logging in. We’ve had that before with other digital state testing. RM very early on sent teachers a note to just keep refreshing until they got in. We had time built into our schedule anticipating login problems. We also had a homeroom last week to check student devices and do pre-administration, so kids were ready to go. And the staff meeting last week was the online training, so everyone had been verified to be ready. As soon as refreshing got the proctors in to advance the students to start testing, the kids had no issues. I think our room was delayed by only ~15 min with the time outs.

exactly the same at Poolesville-- the homeroom device/ preadministration last week, refresh multiple times, only had a 15-20 minute delay and had factored in an extra hour of time for the test just in case we had any issues like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Poolesville is ok. Just received a message.

Did Poolesville complete the test? Why did it work at Poolesville and not at other schools?

we (Poolesville) did a homeroom last week to make sure all student devices were operating correctly with the online platform which helped some -- but mainly the staff kept hitting refresh until it worked -- it was just an issue with the College Board site the proctors used to start the test. We deliberately built in extra time in case something like this happened, so we didn't feel rushed or worried when it took an extra 15-20 minutes to get things started

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Anonymous wrote:Our school changed to a 2-hour delay schedule instead.

How can they do that last minute?

Most of the kids were already there?

Freshman and seniors are not there. That’s 1/2 the school

My freshman is taking the psat today. Or they were

Are all freshman taking it?

Private schools allow the freshman to take PSAT's. Publics do not

ANy high school student who chooses to register and pay for the PSAT may take it, though it isn't really practical for seniors to take. MCPS paid for all 10th graders to take, 9th and 11th had to pay themselves

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Anonymous wrote:My 10th grader just got home from Blake and told me the testing was actually working okay in their room and they had just started the 2nd module when the school made an announcement that due to the nationwide issues they were going to stop the testing and reschedule for another day. Kind of annoying they didn't get to finish, but I guess they were following instructions they received from MCPS.

And yet MCPS still has not made a systemwide announcement....

Why do you need a systemwide announcement? Each school will communicate as needed depending on what happened at the school.

[Anonymous]

Maybe some schools had less issues once other schools cancelled. It lightened the load for them.

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Anonymous wrote:My 10th grader just got home from Blake and told me the testing was actually working okay in their room and they had just started the 2nd module when the school made an announcement that due to the nationwide issues they were going to stop the testing and reschedule for another day. Kind of annoying they didn't get to finish, but I guess they were following instructions they received from MCPS.

Why would they even want to do that? If their testing was working okay at Blake, just let the kids finish.

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Anonymous wrote:My 10th grader just got home from Blake and told me the testing was actually working okay in their room and they had just started the 2nd module when the school made an announcement that due to the nationwide issues they were going to stop the testing and reschedule for another day. Kind of annoying they didn't get to finish, but I guess they were following instructions they received from MCPS.

Unlikely these instructions came from MCPS since some schools did finish the testing.

RM finished it's PSAT testing today.

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My 10th grader at Blake has an ancient Chromebook and it turns out those with the old chromebooks couldn’t get on. Basically shitty devices.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe some schools had less issues once other schools cancelled. It lightened the load for them.

At Churchill, students who had no problems were told to stop. It seems that the logical solution would have been for students to keep testing. Now two whole school days will be lost for the PSAT.

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Anonymous wrote:The president of the college board should be fired. What a waste of everyone’s time and resources.

+1 MCPS should stop putting class time and financial resources for College Board tests. Most students would do better taking the ACT over the SAT and most colleges are not requiring these types of tests anymore.

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Teacher here and it makes sense to me that they'd stop kids mid-test, even if it's frustrating. if you have half a room or even kids from other rooms in the halls making distracting noises, the test-takers could be distracted and/or complain profusely when they get their scores back and they'd like them to be higher. The test taking experience was compromised, so they had to stop.

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Anonymous wrote:Churchill cancelled.

No really. More like the county cancelled. Churchill students were taking the test before the county told the school to stop

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Anonymous wrote:Churchill cancelled.

No really. More like the county cancelled. Churchill students were taking the test before the county told the school to stop

Other schools finished so no