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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS got accepted, geometry in 8th, no experience factor, solved the math/science question correctly.[/quote]

Do they tell you solved correctly? How do kids know how did on it?[/quote]

It was not a very hard problem. Probably a breeze for those in math counts club at my DD’s school. For reference my DD did not get into the math counts club at her school due to competition.
AMC 8 score 16. So top 25%. 
She did not have enough time to complete it. As per her because she had to explain and essay about the problem. 
The sob story essays are a big part of being selected.

DD has been selected.  Geometry HN
No experience factors. 4 gpa in math and science. South Asian.

My best wishes to all kids worked hard and sure are very talented and didn’t get in. 
Also best of luck to those who got in. 
I am not a fan of the new process. It’s not transparent. 
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DS is in.

He agreed with your DD that this year’s problem was not ultimately difficult.

However, he also said the wording was very confusing, and he could see how many kids could have gotten tripped up by the confusing wording.

That should not happen.  It would be less likely to happen if there were more than just one question.[/quote]

You are complaining that the easy math test was too hard and PP ran out of time and didn't finish?  Sounds like it was the right amount of difficulty.  [/quote]

That’s not what I said.  DS is in, so it’s irrelevant.

What I said was a hard question (or several hard questions) would be fine.

A poorly-worded or unnecessarily confusing question is not fine, especially if TJ asks only a single question.[/quote]

Was the question poorly worded, or was it worded in such a way that it required close reading and good analytical skills to understand the problem?

I can see a child who has average reading comprehensions skills finding it difficult to figure out what is being asked, but that is the type of student who could have find the demands of doing well at TJ to be stressful. Maybe TJ just has a very good weed out question here. 
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