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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC attends Curie, and we moved from Kumon for cost reasons.  For multiple subjects, Curie is much cheaper than Kumon.  Curie as year long grade enrichment for advanced math, english, science and summer courses, has been working well.

But not sure how effective it is to enroll just at the tail end in one month tj essay prep course.  Think of this in terms of -  how effective would Kumon be if student enrolled for just a month before final exam.   Mastering math takes years, not a month or two.  [/quote]

There is a difference between year long enrichment and test prep.  Test prep is about 10 hours of instruction on testing format, time management, things like process of elimination and how to guess, and practice exams.  Some commenters are basically saying that practice exams are cheating.
If you are learning substantive material that might be useful on a mathcounts competition, etc. then this is just studying.
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What do practice exams mean?  periodic assessments? At Curie, there are upfront placement tests and periodic assessments along the way, and before moving to the next level, similar to Kumon.  The overall curriculum is fast paced and high rigor, so these checkpoint assessments help in deciding if student wants to continue to dropout. Considerable number dropout.  [/quote]

Practice exams in the test prep context means taking a previously administered test from a few years ago.

This whole curie thing comes from a bunch of people who are just looking for reasons to justify their racism by saying that the reason they changed the admissions process was to combat the rampant cheating coming out of curie.  They accuse curie of selling TJ test answers and allowing their students to effectively buy their way into tj.  It's stupid and racist.  if you watched the hearings surrounding the change in admissions process, there was a lot of ugly racism on display against all asians but particulary against the indians because they are the newcomers.[/quote]

Too bad it all actually happened and has been proven here over and over.[/quote]

The only part that actually happened was the racism during the hearings and the racism driving the changes to the admissions process.

The admissions changes were driven by a desire for racial balancing not to counteract cheating.
BTW, the cheating at question here is that some kids shared their recollection about the test questions and format with curie after the test.
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People are guessing that this happened.  What is known ([b]at least some have said [/b]they saw it) is that Curie gave had a bank of qiuestions that might be asked and kids said they saw exact questions.[/quote]
But many more have said it's a made-up story! A fabricated story concocted to hurt Curie's reputition, but paradoxically sends more business towards them[/quote]

I am not indian but I think all this anti-indian racism is bullshit, but I am curious why anyone would want to hurt curie's reputation?  It sounds like their business model is easily copied.[/quote]

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