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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not familiar yet with PARCC scores, but it's striking to read that a 99% in the DCPS standardized test (PARCC) translates into 30% in the private school one (SSAT). Can other parents comment on this?[/quote]

It doesn't translate that way, but also the tests do not align -- PARCC is testing a grade level, middle school SSAT is testing a range of grades (5-7). For [b]high school[/b], our DC did very little prep; never even took a full practice test. The SSAT scores were completely consistent with DC's top PARCC scores. DC got no rejections. Actually, DC did better on the SSAT than on the ELA part of the PARCC and thought the SSAT was easier than PARCC. There was nothing in the math part of the SSAT that DC had not learned in school, so the score there was pure test performance. There was no knowledge gap. I will add that in the interviews, ADs consistently had enthusiastic comments about their experiences with kids admitted from DCPS schools.

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What school were you coming from?   Kids at our JKLM bombed the ssat and isee.  A large amount of the math was brand new to them.  I know because I studied it with my child and it was all parents talked about.   Our kids had never seen the concepts before.  [/quote]

What grade? The SSAT for middle school is the same test for 5th through 7th graders, so you would expect to see new stuff if you are a 5th grader, unless you are tracked to 7th grade math. [/quote]

The 5th graders at our JKLM had never seen much the SSAT math before but it was the same for the ISEE.   The kids all did badly, despite many having top PARCC scores. 
I was the one who studied with my child and he/she had never seen a number of the concepts before (even for the ISEE which was normed to be a 4th/5th grade test).  
None of us (parents) could figure out what went wrong in their math curriculum.  These are smart kids, who have 4's in math and good if not great PARCC scores but who did horribly on the SSAT and ISEE without a signifiant amount of tutoring 
and test prep.  Many of the kids ended up taking the SSAT/ISEE 4 or 5 times to get their scores up!  
It was eye opening and I'm still not sure why it happened.  This is from one of the most popular JKLM schools.  [/quote]

SSAT is [i]SO [/i]not hard.  I've done quant sample with my 5th grade non-JKLM DCPS student who finished it without errors and 6 minutes to spare.  You people are absurd.[/quote]

huh.  My JKLM student and classmates had never been taught a lot of what was on the test.  In the fall of 5th they hadn't done any work with negative numbers, fractions, etc.  
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Is this common, that JKLM students are not being taught negative numbers or fractions by 5th grade? [/quote]

No. It is so far removed from reality that it has to be a troll.[/quote]

not a troll and 4th grade. DC scored nearly perfect on PARCC too.  just not a big deal.  Finished 1/2 test eyeballing without even writing anything down.[/quote]

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