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[quote=Anonymous]"Make the test less preppable

While an admissions test is necessary, the current admissions test is flawed. Wealthier TJ applicants often attend private tutoring classes to prepare for the TJ admissions test. By creating a test that measures critical thinking, logic, and creative problem solving over standardized testing skills would help to eliminate the advantage that students who pay for private tutoring have. This was implemented for Class of 2022 admissions with the introduction of the Quant-Q, and we saw noticeable differences in class demographics."

What test would possibly fit this creteria?  This was the goal of the Quant-Q.  The Quant-Q is a GREAT test and is designed to be secured and unprepable.  Go back and watch the school board meetings - everyone was SURE this would be the answer.

Unfornately, one prep company seems to have found a way to cheat their way to 28% of the class of 2024 by giving their students special access to the test.  For the class of 2022, they only had 51 students, but "somehow" managed to get 133 students for 2024.

Also of note: One of the students is on the "2018 LIST OF CURIE STUDENTS WHO GOT ACCEPTED IN AOS/AET/TJ" published on the prep company's facebook page on 6/9/18.  (I will not say which student!)  
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