Perfect SOL?

[Anonymous]

Is this a common thing? Several of the students in my son’s third grade class scored a perfect on their reading sol. Gen ed not aap. I have no idea if this is typical or if the teacher has some sort of magic recipe. It’s our first year of SOLs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a common thing? Several of the students in my son’s third grade class scored a perfect on their reading sol. Gen ed not aap. I have no idea if this is typical or if the teacher has some sort of magic recipe. It’s our first year of SOLs.

how do you know this?

[Anonymous]

My oldest took SOLs in third and 4th grade so far and each year got a perfect score on one of them. I think it is fairly but not super common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a common thing? Several of the students in my son’s third grade class scored a perfect on their reading sol. Gen ed not aap. I have no idea if this is typical or if the teacher has some sort of magic recipe. It’s our first year of SOLs.

how do you know this?

I also would doubt OP got this years scores yet.

[Anonymous]

OP here: I guess it doesn't matter if you believe me or not, since it has nothing to do with the question.

I'm simply curious if this is typical or an anomaly. I had no idea what to expect.

FWIW, we have been provided scores. Why is that a big deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here: I guess it doesn't matter if you believe me or not, since it has nothing to do with the question.

I'm simply curious if this is typical or an anomaly. I had no idea what to expect.

FWIW, we have been provided scores. Why is that a big deal?

It's not super common. I often see scores in the mid to high 500s, but only a handful (or less) of 600s. (4th grade teacher)

[Anonymous]

My AAP kid received a perfect score in 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

I taught 8th grade algebra for 10 years. Around 2% of kids would get a perfect score, and another 10% would miss 1 or 2 questions (which drops the score to the mid 500s).

The reading test regularly had higher scores. The civics test back when it was offered saw tons of 600s.

[Anonymous]

Relatively common. A few kids per class each year in a GenEd class. Many, many kids will pass advance in the mid-500s. The real issue is when kids get a perfect score and then stress out over getting a perfect score every year after that....holy anxiety, Batman. I see that happen a lot with the AAP students.

[Anonymous]

A dime a dozen. Happened to my kids several times and really doesn’t matter vs a550 for anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relatively common. A few kids per class each year in a GenEd class. Many, many kids will pass advance in the mid-500s. The real issue is when kids get a perfect score and then stress out over getting a perfect score every year after that....holy anxiety, Batman. I see that happen a lot with the AAP students.

Sounds like it's school dependent. I teach at a title I school. We're just looking for them to pass almost no one ever gets a 600... Or above 500.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My AAP kid received a perfect score in 5th grade.

So did my non AAP kid.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like they dumbed down the test.

[Anonymous]

OP here - thanks for the observations!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like they dumbed down the test.