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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your school's test coordinator should refer to page 7 of the MCPS MAP Test Coordinator's Manual for 2018.  It states that it is up to the school's discretion to allow students to take longer than the suggested testing times.  The manual does indicate that students who take longer don't necessarily perform better which has been [b] the exact opposite message schools have been sent by central office for the last ten years.[/b] [/quote]

And from the testing company itself. [b]They clearly state that the test is designed to be untimed[/b], and their data show that the test times for the highest-performing students average more than an hour.[/quote]

However, they do not say over multiple sessions.
I think the county is more moving away from kids coming back to the test day after day for more time.  
It is different if you have 90 minutes in one sitting or 45 minutes one day, then 25 minutes the next day and 25 minutes the day after that.  Kids can't go back to finished questions so it's not looking up things they didn't know, but there is a difference in how you preform when you are fresh and when you are tired.  The test is designed to be taken in one sitting and some schools have not been administering it this way.  
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