Correlation between SCAT and SAT results for 7th grader

[Anonymous]

hi,my daughter will be taking SCAT next year,have heard of online tutoring portals for test preparations,can anyone recommend any good portal for the same.

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No hostility toward SAT and ACT prep. People generally don't have a problem with prep for the college entrance examinations like the SAT and the ACT since, as you say, they are not aptitude tests, but tests of the subject matter taught in high school.

But let's face it, an unprepped perfect score for a high school junior is way more impressive than a prepped score. These are tests of all you have learned in school so an unprepped perfect score shows a much better than average command of the coursework taught in high school.

Only a fool will assume an "unprepped" 800 is way more impressive since this individual has prepped deligently through reading and longstanding study. What's so impressive?

What's impressive with an unprepped student is that they managed a perfect score without a course in how to game the test. Not saying it's wrong as I remember how some testing strategies helped raise my score 100 points in HS, but when you see a kid walk into an SAT test without that and come out with an 800, you know you have an extremely smart kid on your hands.

Yes. Nothing wrong with learning test-taking strategies, but someone who can get a perfect score without doing test prep clearly is head and shoulders above the rest.

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[Anonymous]

My son took the SCAT recently and we just did the practice tests on the JHU CTY site. He easily passed the math part (not the verbal) but he is just naturally good at math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hi,my daughter will be taking SCAT next year,have heard of online tutoring portals for test preparations,can anyone recommend any good portal for the same.

Please don't prep your daughter. Getting into CTY is not some notch for her belt; it is a program to meet the special needs of kids who need its help to meet their social and academic needs. If your child is a good match for the program, she will qualify without prepping.

In other words, it is not meant to be a competitive test or program for which kids should prepare or cram. It is meant to assess their natural ability.

[Anonymous]

Prep if you want, do not prep if you don't want to. The only thing that matters is what fits your personality, practice and comfort zone. Do not listen to those who demand you to be like them ... or not. Just do your own thing.

[Anonymous]

Please don't prep your daughter. Getting into CTY is not some notch for her belt; it is a program to meet the special needs of kids who need its help to meet their social and academic needs. If your child is a good match for the program, she will qualify without prepping.

In other words, it is not meant to be a competitive test or program for which kids should prepare or cram. It is meant to assess their natural ability.

Sounds like the owner and founder of CTY with all the patent rights and intellectual property. Or a mere fool.

[Anonymous]

We signed up our daughter with www.top-grader.com for SCAT tutoring. Been going well so far ... she is in 7th grade and will be taking the test this Fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We signed up our daughter with www.top-grader.com for SCAT tutoring. Been going well so far ... she is in 7th grade and will be taking the test this Fall.

I thought the SCAT was for younger children and that 7th graders take the SAT.

[Anonymous]

CTY accepts the ACT and SAT scores for 7th and 8th grade, so you should be working on those and forget abou the SCAT. The SCAT is for kids.

[Anonymous]

People prep for CTY?
The only thing it offers is a chance at ridiculously overpriced camps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People prep for CTY?
The only thing it offers is a chance at ridiculously overpriced camps.

Colleges view those favorably though. Much more than Disney and .. um... downtime.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People prep for CTY?
The only thing it offers is a chance at ridiculously overpriced camps.

Colleges view those favorably though. Much more than Disney and .. um... downtime.

Colleges don't really care what you do with your summers before 9th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:People prep for CTY?
The only thing it offers is a chance at ridiculously overpriced camps.

Colleges view those favorably though. Much more than Disney and .. um... downtime.

Colleges don't really care what you do with your summers before 9th grade.

TJ might, as well as selective private high schools. Admittance to which, in turn, will enhance your chance of admission to the better colleges.

[Anonymous]

No, colleges do not view CTY any more favorably than any other program that parents pay a lot of money for. If you want to do it for your child to have a fun experience, by all means, do it, but don't do it because you think it will be a good item on a college, or TJ, application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, colleges do not view CTY any more favorably than any other program that parents pay a lot of money for. If you want to do it for your child to have a fun experience, by all means, do it, but don't do it because you think it will be a good item on a college, or TJ, application.

better than Disney and laying around .. um.. I mean downtime.

And it's not CTY you put on the app. or essay. It's the class itself, i.e., epidemiology, Shakespeare, Model U.N. etc. and what you learned therefrom.