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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone targeting this particular place? Why not post the statistics of other prepping places? maybe other places have 35% or 50% success rate? I'm sure all the prepping places are monitoring and responding in this thread. So please defend yourself and post statistics of your competitors, so that people can make decisions.
On the same note, post which sport coaches have good success rate so that it will help parents who are focusing on sports.
Lets make this thread a one stop shop for advising/advertising[/quote]

Why are we examining Curie?

Multiple TJ students have stated in public forums that they had access to the Quant Q ahead of time.  They have stated that they were asked to go directly after the test and give Curie the specific questions on the test.  This is despite having signed a statement that they would not share information about the test.

The TJ prep industry is a very robust and competitive market.  There are literally dozens of companies and tutors.  That one company was able to get 28% of the class of 2024 is extremely suspect. If it was just on the 28% alone, we might be able to just say okay, they are good at teaching to a test.  However, since we have multiple students saying that they HAD A COPY OF THE TEST, it logically leads to that the reaosn that they got 28% of the class is due to wide-spread cheating.

It also is a unique situation because Curie publishes the names of their students that are admitted to TJ/AOS/AET in 2022, 2023 and 2024 on their Facebook page.  (They took down the posts with the list of names for 2024 and 2023 yesterday, but the lists are still out there.) They got 51 in 2022, 91 in 2023 and 133 in 2024.  Something very suspect is clearly going on - what is the reason for the change from 51 to 133 in just two years?        
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This also wouldn't be nearly as big a deal if the TJ Admissions Office didn't go out of their way every year to say that there's no prep available for the Quant Q and that the exam is supposed to be secure.

Many families, when they hear this, simply accept it and go into the exam blind - which is an enormous disadvantage because of:

a) the time crunch as even prepared students struggle to finish the exam, and 
b) the fact that students are judged on a national percentile rather than the raw score, meaning that students who have privileged access are artificially re-setting the curve and eliminating students from the semifinalist pool

Do other companies have access to the exam? Perhaps, but they haven't posted a list of their successful students' names on Facebook and had TJ students with nothing to gain call them out by name for engaging in shady behavior.[/quote]

Interesting ideas.

Logically, if Curie is getting a massively larger percentage of the class every year and there are students that say they had the test, it would stand to reason that they have special access to the Quant Q, right?

Similar to the SAT/ACT/PSAT, most families have the children take a short prep class (Fairfax Collegiate, the FCPS program, Kate Darnly for example).  If these companies all also had access to the Quant Q, Curie would not have been able to get 28% of the class of 2024 vs 11% of the class of 2022.  I sadly think that all signs point to Curie students engaging cheating.  [/quote]

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