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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The NMSF determination will happen only in junior year so that is a year away.  But sophomore get a shot at the PSAT as well.

If those scores (average scores of course not individual ones) are made public and compared with equivalent sophomore PSAT scores - there will be a directional view on how this class is performing.  [/quote]

If the average scores are good, pro-reform people will say, see I told you the standardized test shows that they are inertly smart !!  If the average scores are bad, they will say, see I told you the standardized test fails to show that they are inertly smart!!  Either way, the pro-reform people will say that they are inertly smart!![/quote]

Exactly. They'll disparage the test by saying only prepped robots do well on those things, but their child is naturally brilliant and full of personality. Not a boring prepped robot...and colleges agree with me because they don't require the tests anymore (except MIT, which realized that test optional doesn't yield the type of student who can hack it at MIT)[/quote]

When 30% of the kids who were admitted were from just one prep center it suggests many feel it necessary to spend $5k to $10k on prep in order to compete. in fact, it's safe to say that the majority were heavily prepped under the old system [/quote]

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