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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look people.  FCPS has no data to even adjust this test for age.  Its possible for fcps students, no age adjustment is needed.  [b]Its also possible, the younger kids dont keep up as well with the older kids in aap.[/b]  AAP does not grade adjust based on age once the kid is in aap.  In the end a lack of age adjustment would only affect a very few kids that are near the borderline of making the auto pool and certainly not worth any wholesale fuss.  In the end the auto pool (95%) kid gets the same look as the referred kid.  Its been said, historically that 30%-40% of the slots go to referred aap pool kids.  Thats a lot.  Stop complaining.  Considering the auto pool threshold was harder to make this year for cogat, that increases the chances of the self referrals as there should be less overall total kids fcps will have to sift through assuming they keep the aap numbers at a similar current level.[/quote]

Or, it is entirely possible that there are ample younger summer birthday kids who are scoring exceptionally high on the test that there is a balanced age spread between the youngest kids in the pool through the red shirted kids.

If the numbers are balanced then there is really no need to adjust for age if they just want the top 5% for the grade.[/quote]

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