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[quote=Anonymous][b][color=blue]TJ students and others have publicly acknowledged the unfair advantage that money can buy and that test prep companies have a "cache of previous and example prompts".[/color] [/b]

https://www.tjtoday.org/29411/features/students-divided-on-proposed-changes-to-admissions-process/
[i]“ “Personally, TJ admissions was not a challenge to navigate. I had a sibling who attended before me. [b]However, a lot of resources needed to navigate admissions cost money. That is an unfair advantage given to more economically advantaged students,[/b]” junior Vivi Rao said. ”[/i]

https://www.tjtoday.org/23143/showcase/the-children-left-behind/
[i]“ Families with more money can afford to give children that extra edge by signing them up for whatever prep classes they can find. They can pay money to tutoring organizations to teach their children test-taking skills, “skills learned outside of school,” and [b]to access a cache of previous and example prompts, as I witnessed when I took TJ prep[/b]; even if prompts become outdated by test changes, even access to old prompts enables private tutoring pupils to gain an upper edge over others: pupils become accustomed to the format of the writing sections and gain an approximate idea of what to expect.”[/i]
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