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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot pause in the middle of a question.[/quote]

Actually you can. You just don't finish it and then come back the next day and resume. In our school many students  took days to finish the test. Not that it matters one way or another, except make some students think that they are competitive when they are not.  The way many standardized tests are set up - SAT, ACT, APs -  you are supposed to be able to answer a set amount of questions in a given finite time.  [b]Many students[/b] who score high in MAP in MCPS are doing poorly on these standardized exams because they have not really mastered the content and concepts.  Perhaps we need to give all of them IEPs for life?  Being an MCPS student is a disability at times, is it not?[/quote]

Firstly, I am not sure how you determine "many students", unless you are a county administrator.  Your sampling of 5, 10, even 20 students is negligible.

Secondly, this is why the county has multiple tests.  My kid is at a highly competitive with who I am sure are highly competitive students who likely are accused of cheating the system by DCUM.  He reports that he is always the last 2-3 to finish, and even with that, he finishes in the first block of hour they provide him.  So I think you are exaggerating this entire concept of [b]many kids[/b] in the county taking DAYS to be done.[/quote]

Lots of misinformation in the first post.
There's no evidence that children who score high in MAP in MCPS do poorly on other standardized tests. To the contrary, the only study that I think is public looks at PARCC scores and high PARCC scores of 6 correlate very strongly to very high MAP scores.
The children I know who are in magnet programs got very high MAP scores also got very high Cogat (99th percentile) scores. This is why MAP isn't the sole criteria for admitting students into a magnet program. They also look at Cogat and grades and for the older grades PARCC.
I think you're one of those posters who has been ranting about their child not getting into the TPMS, Eastern or one of the CES schools despite decently high scores. I do think the process this year seemed illconceived. But it doesn't help anyone for you to make up fiction to justify your child's rejection.[/quote]

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