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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they consistent with other testing throughout the year? (I know they count for more/cover more ground, but are they more difficult in other ways?)[/quote]

There should not be any new material presented, but obviously there will be fewer questions on each thing. They are twice as long as other tests - which is challenging for some students. The atmosphere around them is also different because they do count, and the end of year version is a key factor in determining whether a teacher will receive a bonus. For other tests or quizzes students can sometimes earn some points back by doing corrections or even retakes -- not possible for precomps or comps.

Half of the pre-comp/comp is written by your child's teacher (called the native portion) and the other half is written by the BASIS network curriculum person over the subject (called the common portion). The classroom teacher will nto see the common portion before the test day. Occasionally something will be on the common portion that hasn't been presented to your child, and in that case the teacher can and does get that question taken out when it is time to grade.

The idea of these tests is to prepare students for high stakes AP tests covering large amounts of material when they hit 9th grade. But it can be a lot to put on middle school students, and some kids don't handle the stress very well, including otherwise good students. [/quote]

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