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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should change the test every year so people can't study for it. Much more authentic results that way. [/quote]

I love that they added a science section.  DS is at TJ, and there is definately more to succeeding there than Math, math and more math. Math may be a hard A to get, but the classes is very dry, plug and chug, drill and kill stuff. His sister is fine in math, but really excels in science, and loves science, and just took the test. Math was “fine” she said.   English was “fine”. But for science she was like “rocked it”. Whether she did or not remains to be seen and we are very clear that you don’t count your chickens, and that there is a lot of subjectivity in the process, etc.  But I’m glad TJ is giving kids like her more ways to demonstrate STEM aptitude. And reading might have been prepable. But, for this year at least, it was hard to prep for science and math sections. And you need a 90% on science or a 75% on math to advance.  It will be interesting to see if the semifinal pool and the accepted students have a different makeup than they have recently.  2 years ago, DS was in the class where the”essay” problem was writing out a solution to a multi step Algebra word problem.  No one saw that one coming either.

It does seem like, from what DD said, you did not need any Algebra or Geometry to excel at the new test. As long as I have had kids in MS looking at TJ or at TJ, I keep hearing from admissions and the school that there have a problem with kids over accelerating in math to get in, and coming in with math knowledge a mile wide and an inch deep. And that they want kids to have a really strong Algebra I foundation, but they don’t need math beyond that. They would rather teach kids what they need in depth than have kids zooming through summer school Geometry. But then they were administering a math test that it was almost impossible to score high enough to be admitted unless you had a full year of Algebra and some Geometry. So, it is great to see TJ putting their money where their mouth is, and only testing the math they say kids need to have.  If they want kids to have Geometry and test it, fine. But they needed to stop saying one thing and testing another. [/quote]

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