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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh so you're saying that Basis math is strong but the English sucks so that's why Basic kids don't score well on the PSAT?  Got it.

I can't keep up with these mental gymnastics. 🤪[/quote]

No.  I'm saying that the cutoff is quite high in the DC area, so it's very difficult for anyone to make NMSF.  It's supposed to be the top 0.5% in each state, but DC has one of the highest cutoff scores in the country.  It is likely that the Basis kids are failing to make NMSF because their language arts scores are weaker but their math scores would be in range.  This should not be surprising, since the kids who are very strong in LA are likely to leave Basis for private or Walls in high school, since those would likely have stronger LA programs.

The PSAT scores also are less a reflection of how well the school is teaching and more a reflection of how strong the individual students are.  If Walls has a lot of NMSF, but Basis has none, it just means that the 99.5th percentile kids are choosing Walls over Basis.

Only in dcum-land would people act as if not being in the top one-half of a percent means that the kids suck at English or don't score well on the PSAT.   :roll: Those 97th-99.4th percentile kids are such underachieving morons.  [/quote]

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