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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the IAAT test offered to all students or AAP only? What is a raw score on average in the past that tends to put you over the 91 percentile? I understand that percentile depends on the difficulty of questions and the aptitude of the students appearing for a given year. [/quote]

The IAAT is only given to six graders who are in AAP or level IV math. There are 60 questions, so a student would have to get at least 55 of them correct.[/quote]

Nope, It's 91st percentile, not 91%. So a kid needs to do better than 91% of the kids taking the test. Is that nationally, in the county, in the school? [/quote]

Nationally.[/quote]

Interesting.  I asked DC's 6th grade AAP teacher, and was told that she thought it was Fairfax County, but could be the state of Virginia.  If nationally, that gives a huge edge to FCPS kids as they typically score higher than the national average on standardized tests.[/quote]

Your child's teacher is a moron.  Think about it:  Only the kids in AAP and Advanced math are even allowed to take the IAAT.  That's maybe 30% of the FCPS 6th grade population.  If you need to be in the 91st percentile of that group, that's equivalent to being in the top 2.7% of the entire FCPS 6th grade cohort.  Or, to put it another way, assuming 14,000 6th graders in FCPS, only 378 would be allowed to take Algebra in 7th.  This is very obviously not the case.  [/quote]

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