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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curie also creates many questions from the template of one question.  They probably have more questions in their question banks than the administrators of the TJ tests.  They also slice and dice any "type" of question they hear that was in the admission test and then they  just create many similar types of questions. Some of their questions will also be trick question to stump or confuse the students in practice. It is not an easy course to do because they actually work you very hard.

I think the school board should actually ask Curie to share these questions that they have created with all the public school students.  [/quote]

This is more likely case and rest of the discussion around cheating or test leaks etc are just conspiracy theories. And it is likely true that this prep center does make kids work very hard and many kids start once a week enrichment classes from around 4th or 5th grade, which I heard gets even more intense (several classes a week) from the middle of 7th grade. I believe majority of additional focus in 7th grade is around english/grammar rather than math since many of these kids are already pretty good at math as they come from families with strong STEM background. Most of these kids are already smart and in AAP (otherwise they can't handle this extra load) and when you put them through intense prepping, you are likely to get the results. Over several years, the prep center probably has improved their curriculum as they figured out what works and what doesn't and at the same time attracted many more students from around the area by word of mouth.

Also, why would this prep center share their materials for all public school students?? It doesn't make sense. If TJ actually care about this, they should try to come with more unique questions every year or change the test pattern rather than blaming the kids. How can you stop kids from talking about the test? My kids always talk to me about difficult questions they got in the test and we discuss about how they did. I am sure I did the same when I was in school. My daughter (rising 3rd grd aap) still remembers few of the questions from her cogat almost an year ago :).
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