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[quote=Anonymous][quote]No. The test has a carefully designed "escape hatch" for kids who are being pushed to take the test but don't actually want to attend the magnet. At the beginning of the test, the kid has to mark on a scale of 1-10 how much they want to attend the magnet. For a kid who wants to attend, the correct answer is obviously 10. The kid who has no interest in 3 intense years of science marks 1-5, and the test readers know how to interpret this as a lack of desire.

(Geez, some of you claim such familiarity with the magnets and magnet testing. But none of you knew this?)[/quote]

Can you then explain why my kid put a 4 down (+/- interest) but then got in to both humanities and science/math schools.  She ultimately decided to go in the fall after attending both open houses.

What "escape hatch" crap are you babbling about.  If the child puts down a zero for this scaled question and then proceeds to score way above the mean in all subsections of both tests (including  written response ) why would MCPS reject the kid (at their own potential legal peril).   That would never happen.  I assure you if the child bombed on the test -- bye bye.  Yes, I have intimate familiarity with the process.  You don't.

I can hear the lawyers now when MCPS states the child answered 0 to this question but had the highest score out of all 700 candidates.  If the escape hatch was exercised it would have been when she signed to papers to go to the neighborhood school. [/quote]

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