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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IF FCPS is that concerned it has to stay a step ahead of the commercial test preppers. Getting into TJ has spawned a cottage industry in these parts, and judging from the admissions stats FCPS isn't that worried about it. The commercial test preppers figured out how to crack the ethics essays awile back and I don't see FCPS doing a lot to change anything.[/quote]

Well, they did change the process for the SIS this year. When my child applied, it was to be filled out at home, with instructions that the child was to answer the questions without outside help. Guess what? Test prep businesses were running seminars on "How to fill out the SIS"! Really? Does that fulfill the spirit of the requirement of no outside help?

So, this year, the applicants had to go to a school and fill out the SIS under monitored conditions. Do I think that completely solved the problem? No, because I suspect the companies still held their their seminars and advised the kids to memorize answers that would work with the questions they were guessing ahead of time would be asked.

I love the irony of the fact that "(t)he commercial test preppers figured out how to crack the ethics essays awile back."  :roll:

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