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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APA explains it somewhat here: 
https://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/test-security-faq
[i] The reproduction and inclusion of copyrighted test items in scholarly and scientific publications and presentations might not only be a copyright violation but may also undermine test security by potentially placing test items in the public domain, making test takers’ pre-knowledge of test items a major threat to the utility of an instrument. Indeed, it would seem that this concern should not be limited to only copyrighted measures but to any and all tests whose validity would be compromised if test takers had pre-knowledge and could thus "practice" the items. [/i][/quote]

This is exactly the point. The Quant-Q is a test of native problem solving ability and derives the entirety of its utility from evaluating how a student approaches a problem[b] that they've never seen before[/b] - and whether or not they have the ability to quickly and efficiently analyze and solve a problem. The adult version of the exam is used most frequently to determine suitability for cybersecurity and intense programming challenges.

If a student walks into the Quant-Q having seen all of its different types of problems before, it's not only useless as an instrument for determining a student's native problem solving ability - it's HARMFUL to the student population by selecting the wrong students.

It is no accident that in the first year of the Quant-Q's usage for TJ Admissions, the percentage of the TJ cohort that was Asian plummeted from 74.9% (c/o 2021) to 65.2% (c/o 2022) before recovering in the following two years. There were wide reports of students exiting the various TJ exam sites for the Class of 2022 looking completely dumbfounded, with some even crying to their parents that they had no idea to do the problems.

It's also no surprise that Curie's share of TJ offers went from 50 in the first year to 98 to 133 before the changes to the admissions process, given that TJ students have already admitted to having seen some of the EXACT questions on the exam in the class of 2023 and 2024 through their work at Curie.  [/quote]

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