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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah not taking the Currie parent or employee posts seriously on this thread. Its self serving to rant about going to the FBI and trying to shut down the conversation. Obviously they have an interest in keeping things under wraps[/quote]Good for you and bless your heart. You are free to choose what you want to take seriously and what you consider to be "self serving rant" and to be as cynical as you choose. I'm not sure what it is you (or as many of you who are perpetuating this) are trying to achieve, but good luck with that.[/quote]

I mean, I’ve tried to be clear.

The Quant-Q is supposed to be so secure that FCPS and TJ admissions are not allowed to release any prep materials. So plenty of kids and families believe that they have to go in relatively blind and have no idea what to expect. TJ admissions changed to this for the class of 2022 for this reason and to create this outcome, limiting the influence of prep and leveling the playing field.

From 2021 to 2022, the numbers of Asian admits went down by 10 points and the numbers of everyone else went up.

Then in 2023 and 24, the numbers went back to more or less regular.

TJ kids are saying that one specific prep center gave an amount of information that is supposed to be impossible, because no one who sees the exam is allowed to discuss it per their pledge.

Given that FCPS can not legally release materials to prep, they need to change the exam or else the admissions process will be unfair to anyone who didn’t pay thousands of dollars and spend hundreds of hours at this prep center.

Regardless of why this happened, or who is at fault, it happened and therefore the Quant-Q cannot be used. Familiarity with the problem types on this exam is a GIGANTIC advantage - many students who take it run out of time even if they have the ability to solve the problems.[/quote]

New to this thread and unclear what the issue is here... are we saying that the test takers didn't significantly change the test year to year? They should certainly be doing that (this means actually writing new questions, not changing numbers around from past year questions!)

As to the familiarity of the problem types, that is not a mystery! It's the same thing as preparing for a math contest by doing as many past contest problems as possible. There is nothing wrong with that, it's equivalent to training for any competition, or more commonly, training for SAT type of exams.[/quote]

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