Does MAP-M go up to 350?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bringing this thread back after winter 2024 MAP-M testing.

https://www.montgomerysch...es-FAQ.pdf

Is what's here recent/accurate? Specifically:

"What is the highest score you can get?
A RIT score indicates the difficulty level at which the student is answering about 50% of the questions correctly. Although it is possible to score as high as 265 or more on the reading test and 285 or more on the math test, 240 (reading) and 250 (math) are typical top scores."

My DC in 5th has stagnated at 245 for fall/winter testing, but according to others on this thread, their DCs are in the 270s+ at 5th. Another poster said that 235 is passing for Algebra 1 (typically 7th even on an accelerated path).

For 5th graders that went to Algebra 1 in 6th, what was the average MAP score in 5th?

My DC had a MAP score of 263 end of 5th. He wasn’t allowed to skip to Algebra 1 in 6th grade. After months of communication with the middle school teachers, mcps tested him for algebra in October. He had to get a near perfect score on 6th,7th and 8th material. He got 95% over all, but was denied moving to algebra 1. So to answer your question, no score is acceptable to move to algebra 1.

Your DC's score was too low on the most important test, the zip code test.

Haha sadly true. There are posts here from a couple years back stating how anyone with a 250+ at Frost could take Algebra in 6th. 275+ indicates mastery of algebra

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

Kid, don't start down this path. This is not a good place to read and post.

300 is extremely high z-score, coresponding to solid Geometry and Algebra 2-level knowledge, which nearly all students never attain.

https://sites.google.com/view/nweapercentilecalculator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

Kid, don't start down this path. This is not a good place to read and post.

300 is extremely high z-score, coresponding to solid Geometry and Algebra 2-level knowledge, which nearly all students never attain.

https://sites.google.com/view/nweapercentilecalculator

I don't know, but when DC was in 8th, they broke 300. They were only in geometry. They had been scoring in the high 280s since they were 11 and even looked up topics they encountered that they hadn't seen before so they would be able to answer those questions in subsequent tests., Not trying to minimize it but I think any bright kid who is engaged could do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

It might be rare in upper county. In down county, this is a pretty impressive score, but not outliers. My ds started to hit 300 at 7th, and now at 9th grade, scoring 330ish. In his grade at Blair, about 10 kids steadily score in that range. You should have a high chance to get accepted in poolsville

[Anonymous]

Good grief, folks. Can't you identify a troll resurrection post when you see it? Ignore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s much easier to get 300+ once completed Geometry. There is a small cohort taking algebra in 6th grade and geometry in 7th. ~50% scores 300+ in 8th fall map-m.

I've heard many of the students from the wealthier schools take Geometry in 7th. This apparently gives them another advantage.

This is correct. There is a geometry component to the MAP-M score. My DC is in geometry for 8th grade and got 298 on that component. It helped to raise her grade to 278 for the composite MAP-M score.

It’s one of the reasons I don’t think MAP-M is a fair test. More preparation always means a high score. A lot of kids don’t have access to that preparation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

It might be rare in upper county. In down county, this is a pretty impressive score, but not outliers. My ds started to hit 300 at 7th, and now at 9th grade, scoring 330ish. In his grade at Blair, about 10 kids steadily score in that range. You should have a high chance to get accepted in poolsville

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

It might be rare in upper county. In down county, this is a pretty impressive score, but not outliers. My ds started to hit 300 at 7th, and now at 9th grade, scoring 330ish. In his grade at Blair, about 10 kids steadily score in that range. You should have a high chance to get accepted in poolsville

You should see the kids at WPES! Wow!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What about MAP-R? same upper limit?

Yes, but a score of 270 is above the 99% for grade 12 to put things in perspective.[/quote

That is crazy because I had one 5th grader get a 276 and one get a 271.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

It might be rare in upper county. In down county, this is a pretty impressive score, but not outliers. My ds started to hit 300 at 7th, and now at 9th grade, scoring 330ish. In his grade at Blair, about 10 kids steadily score in that range. You should have a high chance to get accepted in poolsville

Approximately how many kids were 300+ in the Fall of 8th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grade TPMS magnet kid says that a bunch of kids in the magnet got scores in the low 300s. These are kids that apparently prepped for the test for about a month (!). I thought that 300 was the top score. Does it go really go above 300?

Yes, when my inboundary kid was at TPMS they got scores in the 300s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

It might be rare in upper county. In down county, this is a pretty impressive score, but not outliers. My ds started to hit 300 at 7th, and now at 9th grade, scoring 330ish. In his grade at Blair, about 10 kids steadily score in that range. You should have a high chance to get accepted in poolsville

Approximately how many kids were 300+ in the Fall of 8th?

DC was 285 at the beginning of 6th and 300+ by shortly after their 13th birthday. I think there were maybe 5-10 kids at TPMS with scores like that. The median MAP-M score even for STEM magnets is a bit lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello! I'm a 7th grader in Rocky Hill Middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland, and I got a 300 on Map M. When I showed my teacher my score, she said "Holy ---", and she took a picture of my scores. I'm not sure if she was surprised. What was she surprised about?

It might be rare in upper county. In down county, this is a pretty impressive score, but not outliers. My ds started to hit 300 at 7th, and now at 9th grade, scoring 330ish. In his grade at Blair, about 10 kids steadily score in that range. You should have a high chance to get accepted in poolsville

Approximately how many kids were 300+ in the Fall of 8th?

PP clearly has not read the thread (or, alternately, knows the thread well and wants to create a rekindle a kerfuffle). There are no data from MCPS available to the public that would answer this question, and it is doubtful that anyone in MCPS tracks that internally -- if anything, stopping at the cutoffs for 99th percentile nationally, which are all well below 300. Stop resurrecting such trollishness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about MAP-R? same upper limit?

Yes, but a score of 270 is above the 99% for grade 12 to put things in perspective.[/quote

That is crazy because I had one 5th grader get a 276 and one get a 271.

The MAP-M for grades 2-5 is a different test. Typically the scores drop by around 15 points when they go to the MAP for 6+.