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[quote=Anonymous]If a student has no idea what to expect on the exam then they can not study. If they don't have any prior tests because they only got to see them for a few minutes in class then they don't even really know which skills they are most likely to miss on a test. If MCPS wants student performance on the cumulative exam to improve they need to stop tying the students arms behind their backs and blindfolding them.

MCPS also need to assess how they are scoring answers especially in light of the shitty 2.0 curriculum. 2.0 is much more language based - education majors with no math knowledge run amok. If the scorers are looking for students to regurgitate specific language in a manner to explain the math then its no wonder students are failing.

Our child is very good at math and in compacted math. His teacher was out for a period of time. The subs gave exit cards and graded them with the expectation that the students would just regurgitate back what the teacher had said when she tried to explain it in class. There were two cards where the sub marked answers wrong when DS had provided a better explanation in his own words and with diagrams. When his regular teacher came back she agreed and said that his answers were ES not I. The sub didn't even begin to understand the math and was speaking from the 2.0 notes. She expected the students to just blow back the same crap. His regular teacher said she had this problem with the sub and many of the students that do more than memorize what she said and repeat. 
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