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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Quant-Q offers no prep materials whatsoever and guards their exam very closely from the outside. Indeed, they even force people who have seen or proctored the test to sign a non-disclosure agreement that prevents them from revealing any of the questions on the test. The test does change every year, but essentially it appears that they pull from a larger question bank and mix up the order with each new cycle.

But there is nothing preventing students who take the exam from memorizing some or all of the questions and bringing them back to their test prep centers. This is a thing that students at TJ talk openly about doing/having done/benefiting from.

If you're curious as to the impact of prep on the Quant-Q, look at the admissions stats for three years in specific:

Class of 2021 - the year before the QQ was first used - 74.9% Asian
http://www.cinfoshare.org/local-news/TJHSST-Admissions-Statistics-for-Class-of-2021

Class of 2022 - the first year of the QQ - 65.2% Asian
http://thebullelephant.com/tjhsst-admission-stats-class-of-2022/

Class of 2023 - the second year of the QQ - 72.9% Asian
https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-tjhsst-offers-admission-494-students

I would think that Korean/Chinese families in this area would be LIVID to learn that the Curie population is almost entirely South Asian/Indian. What they're doing is not technically cheating, but it obviously creates significant imbalances in the admissions process and is a problem that needs to be solved immediately before the upcoming admissions cycle.

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I would also have an investigation in the orchestrated pressure by the owner of Curie to cause the LCPS board to change their mind about reducing the number of LCPS students heading to TJ and instead put resources into AET/AOS.

From a Google review:

"Loudoun County was considering removing the option of TJHSST admission to students and over 70 ppl assembled at LCPS school board meetings to speak against it. I was surprised because 50 percent of those people, at least, were Curie students. Then to add to the surprise, Dr. Rao himself spoke during the board meeting. In that sense, he's always make sure each student had every opportunity they could hold to be successful. In the end, I successfully made it into AOS, AET, and TJHSST thanks to Curie and I will be part of TJHSST class of '24 next fall. "[/quote]

It's not correct to say that they changed their minds. They changed their membership as a result of the 2019 School Board elections. Several candidates successfully defeated incumbents who had voted for the 50-cap. I would imagine that those candidates were probably well-funded by Dr. Rao and others in the same vein. Overturning the 50-cap was basically the first order of business for the new board in January.[/quote]

Elections have consequences. [/quote]

Dr. Rao’s business depends on having desperate Indian parents that will pay for access to the test.  Of course he does not want to have his business affected.  [/quote]

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