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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do these expensive prep places help kids develop skills that are generally useful in life, or are they mostly learning how to perform well on a specific type of test?  If you're going to spend that much time and effort on an extracurricular, you should walk away with some skills beyond being good at the TJ test.

I don't know what's covered at Curie, and they may already be doing a lot of this.  I'd love to see the TJ admission metrics changed, because kids would be better off learning higher level math, learning grammar and writing, learning computer programming, learning another language, or playing a musical instrument than they would be with spending so much time learning how to take a test.  
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Basically it's about two things:

1) "test-taking" as a skill - which I suppose is valuable because so many professions are gatekept with exams even today

2) the specifics of the TJ exam, which is pretty highly specialized and SUPER long - like every bit as long as the SAT now. It's a 3-hour exam that you take when you're 13 years old.

I will say, there are a fair number of TJ kids who walk in pretty strong in instruments. The orchestra is spectacular every year. But yeah, you're not getting kids who sing, or kids who play sports, or kids who draw on the side.[/quote]

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