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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter didn't get 91% percentile in the IAAT, if  she advanced pass the 7th grade SOL, can she ask for a placement test into the Algebra 1 at middle school ?[/quote]

Getting back to OP's question, depends. At my DD's (former) TJ feeder MS, there are plenty of kids that took Algebra I in 7th that missed the cutoff in IAAT, SOL, or both. The parents pushed to get them in.

Whether this is a good idea is an entirely different question. Algebra I is not hard, BTW. It's further downstream that the kids might have problems.[/quote]

My DC didnt meet the cutoff by a bit and did ha in 8th grade. I gave them the idea to do summer pe and double up on hg and halg2/trig in 9th, surprisingly they agreed(kid is social and not into studying as a past time). I really was nervous about it and kind of questioned if this tiger mom is doing more bad than good, well...they aced both in 9th grade and now have one of the highest grades in AP precal in the class, they are ahead of all the "naturally" gifted aap stars...the question is why? The answer is simple--there are two parts of iq--one is the one we see kids have in 1/2 grade==ability to read easily, do math, out of the box thinking and the other part is executive functioning-to organize oneself, be able to work with multiple intellectual concepts/make connections-this develops around grade 8/9---many times the two are not correlated. i have seen "gifted" kids go down and average kids go up. Now the gifted kids that go up they will become superstars, however executive fxn I believe is also correlated to social skills so sometimes working on these in grade 1/2 is more important than attending AOPS...AAPs favorite pasttime[/quote]

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