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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got an email from see today notifying that my child didn't meet the test requirements and is out. Ok.
The big puzzle is that he is almost all a student in a private Catholic school and took 3 he tests recently with the following results: ssat 97% average, isee 94-98, Catholic hs test 99%. He said sww test was very easy.  Someone else on this forum said their test is a joke.wtf?? Can anyone explain this? [/quote]

I don't have a dog in this fight (my child is in 6th grade) but this is fascinating to me.  My kid was at a JKLM for elementary and has received 5's on every PARCC she/he has taken (97%+ scores for the JKLM, 99%+ for the city each year----3rd, 4th, 5th).  Now goes to Deal and has had 2 quarters of basically 100% in all classes putting him/her at the very top of Deal students; currently in math 7 and one of 20 kids just invited to take math 8 this summer in order to take Algebra in 7th (they invited a very, very small cohort mid-year and based on funding will possible invite more after spring semester). 
My kid took the ISEE in 5th and 6th grade and with a TON of studying each time scored around 90% in math--because he/she had never seen a good 50% of the material presented that way before.  Many of his/her friends also took the ISEE (or SSAT) these years and many scored in the 20's, 30's, 40's and these are bright kids.  It's a hard test especially regarding math because most of the material has never been presented to the kids before.  It's not that they can't master it--it's just that they've never seen it before.

That all said, it's fascinating that a kid who rocked the ISEE wouldn't do well on the Walls test.  Maybe the two tests are testing different things?
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Lots of kids who "rocked" the ISEE and SSAT got into Walls too. [/quote]

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