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Also how bad is this score? This is 3rd grade with no prep, just a kid who likes to enter for the tchotckies and math fun.[/quote]

Without prep, it's an okay score. A lot of Kangaroo questions do not align much with school math and 5-point problems will make many adults think long and hard, too. My kid prepped for a couple of months (1 full test a week), and got 17th rank, 91% percentile or so. He's a 99% MAP student, but without prep, I doubt he'd break into top-20.[/quote]

Mine is a consistent MAP 99% tester, in the highest math class at school, and in the highest RSM 3rd grade group (not competition class) and scored very low on Kangaroo, like 25th percentile. I do think the 3rd and 4th graders take the same Kangaroo test, so that might be part of it. It's Grade 1 and 2 together and Grade 3 and 4 together. I don't know if the student's grade level is factored into the score, though. [/quote]

The difference between AoPS and school math is wide.  My kid learned perfect squares, triangle numbers, prime numbers, reflections and rotations, and more in kindergarten on Beast level one.  Then in school, they were learning addition and subtraction up to 10?  And every year builds from there. [/quote]

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