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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of it especially since it is a different test?[/quote]

I think the point is that it gets kids into the college board's system, they get experience taking the test, the scores are a window into what their score on the SAT would be, and it gives detailed (question by question) information on what your kid knows and doesn't know (particularly in the math section).

I can see why they might drop it to cut costs.  But, as a parent, I liked seeing the score b/c it helped me set expectations for the future.  [/quote]

Does it give you a correlation as to what their score would mean as a real SAT score?[/quote]

If this was about cutting cost, then they could have reversed the 9th and the 11th grade payment, asking the 9th graders to pay to get the scores instead of the 11th graders, but not take away the chance for students to have early exposure and assessment . Actually the email we got last week (West Springfield High School) stated that both 9th graders and 11th graders will need to pay. Soon after that payment information was removed from the email with no explanation.

I am thinking that other school systems in the nation are providing a chance to get that exposure for the 9th graders. It has been given all these past years. In our school, What I just heard when I went to pay for my Junior DD and wax told that the school got the direction that morning of the open house. So this whole thing was just a last minute change .

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