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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Quant Q was supposed to be secure. FCPS even offered a weekend prep course for the TJ exams, including the Quant Q. They didn’t know what the questions would be, I think, they just did the best they could to help the kids prep. Guessing the Curie families didn’t expect that Curie had somehow actually compromised the exam![/quote]

There is prep and then there is PREP on steroids

Equating the 12 hour FCPS class to the 16 month long class Curie offered is laughable.  The FCPS and several of the other prep companies offer what is essentially practice for a long-timed test.  Many of those students have never taken a 4 hour times test.  It made sense to expose them to the what it would be like.  These classes also did not give the students a test bank of Quant W questions.

Curie involved literally 1,000s of hours of work preparing exclusively and solely for the TJ test.  And multiple current  TJ students have said that the prep company HAD A COPY of the test.  Maybe it wasn’t word for word the same questions, but the same drawings/figures were used between the various TJ tests.

The bottom line is that the decision makers in FCPS (TJ principal, Brabrand, etc) are committed to changing the current system and going to a lottery.  They created a system that rewarded extreme “prep”, realize it now and will fix it for future classes.  [/quote]

They can change it all they want and it will be struck down. [/quote]

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