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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree!  I wish they could but it would cost too much money. I’m hopeful that the change in tests will produce more authentic admissions this year although many of my kid’s friends seem to have taken prep classes.  Can’t figure out what they were teaching when it was a new test![/quote]

There is prepping and then there is prepping. My  DD is the one who did the FCPS Class last spring.  It was 4 hours a week for 5 weeks.  She did it then, and not later because the summer was shorter and she had a lot of fun stuff planned, and she had a busy fall planned. It actually covered the old test.  It probably wasn’t a waste, because it taught some basic test taking strategies for,PSATs in HS, and it gave her some practice taking timed tests, since SOLs are untimed.  We got her an Aspire Sample Test book this fall if she wanted to do some practices. But there was only one science book in print that I could find on Amazon, and it ended up being pretty far off of the test.  And I’m not sure she did more than one practice reading and one practice science test. DH set her up with a couple of Kahn academy lessons on combinatorics, since that was new to her. That’s it. Different category than kids who prpepare for the test several hours a week starting in 6th grade and do a lot of homework.

A couple of her friends took week long summer classes, and they also basically did the old stuff.  To the best I could tell, the ACT Aspire Reading was a known quantity, but the” prep” classes did a bad job at predicting the content in math and science. But maybe someone on here had a kid wh took a prep class that got it right. [/quote]

DC's friend is in a hard core prep class in Chantilly - said the class helped in English/Science sections. No doubt they figure out what to teach the kids re test taking even when the test is changed.[/quote]

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