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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted below on the other forum. Pasting below.

While it is true that the essay is very simple, what I heard is it’s not the correct answer (I believe 80-90% of kids will get that) but any out of the box, unique assumptions that you can add. It will make it stand out, even though it may not have the correct answer. Source is a friend whose kid got admitted last year. They had the question on punnet squares. Her kid fumbled at the answer but came up wit a story and really unique reasoning and got in. Their friends who wrote the correct answer were not admitted[/quote]

That actually makes things worse.  Which kids are likely to simply answer the question as asked?  The regular, un-prepped kids applying to TJ.  Who is likely to add extra commentary?  The kids taking Curie or other TJ prep classes which will teach them to look for anything extra to add to their otherwise very simple answers to a very simple problem.  [/quote]

NP.  FCPS teaches "explaining your answer" from early elementary school.  Kids don't need prepping for that.  This is an interesting essay question - it looks easy but can be answered in many different ways.  The way each of my kids would address this is different from how I would, or how DH would.  [/quote]

But are they looking for the kids who do a great job of explaining a fairly trivial math problem, or are they looking for the kids who state that the farmer should utilize one of the deals, since caring for the environment is more important than pure profits, or that the reduction in labor is in and of itself a form of profit, or that the farmer could now promote himself as eco friendly and thus gain some lucrative deals?

A lot of unprepped, regular students wouldn't necessarily feel like they're permitted to go off on tangents like the ones above.  But, taken at face value, this problem would do nothing to differentiate between kids who are math geniuses and kids who are pretty average.  [/quote]

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