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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Today I found out that my DCPS junior got three wrong out of about 120 questions on the PSAT, apparently missed being a NMSF by one question. Still in the 99 percentile (top 1%) in the country, but does not make NMSF because of DC's cutoff, highest in the country. Why is the cutoff so high?[/quote] A better question might be why is the test so easy. Seems to me there ought to be a bigger spread between top scorers and the rest; otherwise starts seeming like luck (rather than pure smarts) is too much of a factor.[/quote] This is a problem in general with standardized testing, the tests aren't hard enough to give much information at the high end. My son interviewed for MIT the fall of his senior year, after taking BC calculus as a junior. The interviewer asked if he had taken the BC AP, and then said, "I assume you got a 5?" That year 120,000 kids got a 5. [/quote]
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