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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lay it on me DCUM, fairly new to the area and my kid scored a 239 on reading and 231 on math just now for MAP. No prep/extra outside of school tutoring and generally above average student but nothing too spectacular.

How are those scores? Are we out of the running for magnet MS (not that interested but curious)? Is my kid doomed for failure? Give me those spicy comments   :twisted: [/quote]

I don't think those scores take her out of the pool, but she would need to do VERY well on the cogat screener. MAP and cogat measure different things, according to MCPS (and the test makers). MAP measures exposure to concepts, so a child in compacted math will do better than an equally intelligent child who is in Math 5, because the first child has been exposed to higher level concepts. The cogat, on the other hand, is meant to measure aptitude.

This isn't a perfect system, obviously. Kids who have not been exposed to higher level math in school can seek it out in other contexts, and there's a whole industry devoted to cogat test prep.

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