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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also new to testing (from private). My kid got 258 in math and 256 in the other. I believe the top score you can get is 300. Not sure how this will chart percentage wise. And this has nothing to do with grades, just school assessment according to his counselor who told us about the tests at the beginning of the year.
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You can look up the percentiles to see how they track. What grade? [/quote]
I have reports of a similar score. We have a 9th grader so I am guessing 80%? Obvioulsy these tests don't count personally but it is good to see how they do and good to do practice tests.
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In fall math, a 256 is 93rd percentile for 9th grade.
In fall reading, a 258 is 98th percentile for 9th.

You can find the percentile tables at the end of this document: https://teach.mapnwea.org/impl/normsResearchStudy.pdf[/quote]

This table is from 2020. Wouldn’t the percentile change each time based on everyone’s scores (because your percentile is how you scored relative to everyone who took the test at that time)? [/quote]

They update the percentile scores every 5 years.  It isn't supposed to be so much about how well a student is doing to their immediate peers, but how they are doing from year to year, where their strenghts and weakness might lie (subscores), etc.

It's intended to help identify what a teacher might focus on for that student and, maybe, to evaluate how the school system is doing as a whole.  Folks spend a lot of energy worrying about it because 1) folks like to toot their own horn, especially about their kids, and 2) because MCPS uses it poorly, not reliably providing the differentiation to meet the need it evidences and placing too much emphasis on single scores when making certain placement decisions.[/quote]

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