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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small schools like Vienna elementary have around 50 kids in second, so that would be top 5. Its not per class but per grade. I also think there can be multiple kids with the same score making the top 10% greater than actually 10% of the class.

Then there are large schools that have 200+ kids making the pool larger.

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It still speaks to how skewed the FFX area is, if the majority of the top 10 percent of a grade are actually falling within top 2-3 percent or higher, nationally, such that a school cutoff just to be "in pool" is above the 97th (130) or 98th (133-134). [/quote]
The CogAT national percentiles are based on kids who didn't prep.  FCPS isn't that much more gifted than anywhere else.  A lot of FCPS people prep, which boosts the scores enough to skew them.  This actually happens in every major city with this type of gifted program.  Suddenly, an overabundance of kids are in the national top 2% on whatever easily prepped standardized test is being used.  [/quote]

I will say, my fourth grader took the COGAT in July because we were moving to FCPS and considering AAP. No prep other than I showed them a website with what the questions looked like the night before.

Verbal was 99th percentile which we expected and nonverbal was 97th percentile. However, quantitative was lower, 81st percentile or something. They didn't finish the quantitative section though what they did do, had gotten 90% correct on raw scores. Decided not to apply to AAP and was told here to just push my kid. 130 composite overall. Didn't question as math has always been their weaker scores on iready, 80th percentile vs always mid 90s to 99th percentiles on verbal - it made sense.

Then realized FCPS does the test again anyways so they took it again in October through FCPS. Zero prep from us, just curious to see if scores aligned. This time, finished most of quantitative (just didn't finish one question) and now 99th percentile in that section.

So just having experience with the test, and/or taking the test during the summer vs. being back in school for two months, somehow boosted them 18 percentile points on the quantitative section. [/quote]

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