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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Previously, the median for accepted students was at 75% of the full test score.  For example, if the full score for math was 60, the median score for the accepted students was at 40 to 47.  These scores were printed on the rejection letter from MCPS.  My DC received two althought her score were at the median of accepted students.  She was not enrolled because the accepted students from her ES and MS have scores aboved the publiched median.
Last year, the HS magnet test became much easier.  The median for the accepted students were 55/60 in one of the catagory.   
When MCPS waters down the test, instead of a normal distribution curve (bell curve), the curve will be like a plateau.  Now, AEI can admitt anyone they want.  There is nor difference between 99% and 93% or 90%.  The kids are equally smart. 
I would like to see if MCPS is willing to publish the accepted students' median MAP-w and MAP-r scores, at least these tests are open ended, and no one prepares for them.[/quote]
This is absolutely true. The tests are made easier so other criteria can be used in the selection.[/quote]

OMG, people - it's the COGAT. No one has made any test easier.  This is a nationally normed assessment designed for the purpose of classifying student learning profiles.  http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/tests.htm#c   [b] This is the same test the current 5th Graders took to get into the CESes.  (Indeed, you could legitimately complain that using the same test gave a significant advantage to the CES students in that they had experienced this testing environment and these question types before).   
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There is a post in another thread where a parent is concerned with a 65 %ile on the nonverbal section; the test wasn't easy.  It's just that the people who feel that the results of the test were very high, and yet they did not get admitted feel that there were too many high scorers.

As the parent of a child accepted to one of the magnets whose child is not in the HGC/CES, I had not realized this was the same test those students took (we didn't apply so our child had never taken the COGAT before or anything like that).  Absolutely, one could very reasonably say HGC/CES kids had a testing advantage because of that, so even less reason for complaints on their part.

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