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Also how bad is this score? This is 3rd grade with no prep, just a kid who likes to enter for the tchotckies and math fun.[/quote]

Without prep, it's an okay score. A lot of Kangaroo questions do not align much with school math and 5-point problems will make many adults think long and hard, too. My kid prepped for a couple of months (1 full test a week), and got 17th rank, 91% percentile or so. He's a 99% MAP student, but without prep, I doubt he'd break into top-20.[/quote]

Where did you get the prep tests and answers? The kangaroo even years and odd years textbooks? I looked at those but they have mixed reviews and for the price I wasn’t sure if it’s worth it. I did see that Kangaroo was doing a hard sell of its online prep classes. [/quote]

PP here. Yes, exactly those books off Amazon. We only did one book (odd years) and, compared to the problems there, this year’s challenge seemed “easy” to DS (first time participant). He went in nervous and came out saying it wasn’t as hard as what we did at home. The types of problems are usually similar, so if your child figures out a general approach, they’ll be able to apply it when they recognize the problem type.[/quote]

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