Reply to Dartmouth Announces Test Scores Required Starting Next Year

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Dartmouth Announces Test Scores Required Starting Next Year"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If you can't even handle that little test, you are not a material for selective schools[/b].  Common Sense.

[/quote]

YES!!  The ACT/SAT in 2024 are not the tests we remember.  Have you all looked at one? They're not tricky and they literally test basic grammar, reading and math.  I mean, look at a test when you have a minute.  It's all very basic stuff: [b] the proper use of colons, reading a paragraph for content[/b], doing basic geometry, etc.  They're not complex questions!![/quote]

Those are the things are public school system fails kids.  Writing instruction is atrocious.  T[b]hey also tend to accelerate kids in math too quickly and pass them along with inflated grades so there is no strong foundation.[/b]  We had our kids do a short boot camp with a tutor before their private high school entrance exams in grammar.

Senior knocked ACT out of the park after 4 years with almost no ACT test prep.  36 in verbal and reading. 35 math.  [/quote]

FCPS kids have to take standardized tests every year. As a parent with a kid that FCPS accelerated, I know exactly where they stand compared to other kids in the county and state all the way though algebra II. Do private schools provide parents with similar objective data points? [/quote]

Some do and some don’t. With that said, standardized tests are not created equally.

Wherever you see MAP tests being used by a school or district, those mask academic weaknesses more than the other mainstream tests do.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics