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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP.  Kid got 5s on Calc BC, AP Bio, AP English literature, AP Spanish Language.  Took Physics C this year and feels like it was also a 5.

I'm not sure what the disconnect is with the ACT and SAT.  The kids feels that it is a timing thing--he/she feels that the APs give far more time for the required material.   [/quote]

It shouldn't be that surprising. Look at the percentage of students getting 5's on these tests:
Calc BC- 42%
AP English Lit- 15%
AP Spanish - 24%
Physics C- 31%
AP Bio- 14%

If you said 5's in AP English Language or APUSH that is more impressive since only around 10% get 5's on those tests.

Those AP scores correlate to a SAT score of 1410 which is the 97th percentile rank of nationally representative group (derived from a research study of U.S. students in 11th and 12th grade and are weighted to represent all U.S. students in those grades, regardless of whether they typically take the SAT.) and the 94th percentile for user group (based on the actual scores of students who took the SAT in the past three school years.)

Why do you think your child should score higher? Your child isn't struggling on the SAT despite you paying thousands of dollars for prep. Your child is a hard worker who is smart and studious but probably not super clever and able to see every pattern or trick. [/quote]

OP here. I have not spent thousands of dollars on prep.

Geez people.  You read my post and fill in the blanks with whatever made-up sh$%t you want to fit your own narrative.

No I never said my kids were in private--they're not (like one poster posted). No they don't have multiple Bs--they don't (like another one made up).  No, we didn't pay thousands on prep (i paid nothing close to this).

For the love of God.  Read for comprehension.

Thank you all who actually read my posts and gave kind advice without fillling in the blanks and making up crap.  [/quote]

I wasn’t counting just 30 hours of SAT paid prep, [b]I am counting all the prep/tutoring you paid for over the years[/b]. You just don’t like the answer about being smart in different ways. There is a limit of how far you are going to get even studying for the SAT. You say you think there is a math issue when your child has gotten a 5 in BC Calc. Not everyone can score in the top 2 percent of test takers no matter how much prep. It doesn’t mean that 98% of the population has a leaning disability. It doesn’t mean your child won’t be successful. Even though you think you aren’t expressing disapproval that your daughter didn’t score higher guarantee your daughter feels your disapproval and is getting the message there is something wrong with her. [/quote]

OP here.  For the love of everything holy.  [b]Stop completely making Sh$%T up to fit your narrative.[/b]  My kids have never had a tutor for ANYTHING before the current SAT tutoring which I pay something like $25/hour for because it's online (I'm not sure the exact hourly rate as I mentioned-- I bought a package).

I am not planning on getting a neuropsychology exam as I was clear in my original post ("it's too late to pursue anything").  None of the subsequent Neuropsych stuff comes from me.  I do think it's unusual to have to read every passage 3 times to understand it.  But again, we are not pursuing anything.

It's the day after the test results are out and I haven't even mentioned the SAT to the kids and I won't until they bring them up. I know the scores because I have access to their college board accounts because we have them and all college stuff under specific emails (as advised by a college counselor) with a password we all know.  I spend all of yesterday with them and all of today and we haven't talked about anything college, SAT or grade related and we won't.

[b]This website is like playing whisper-down-the-alley.  I say one thing and as the posts go on things get increasingly distorted and I'm now being treated like someone who is grossly treating her twins differently and paying thousands of dollars for tutors for years in all subjects while they get Bs in a private school as I scheme on how to get them a neuropsych exam done in time to get extra time for the next exams.  NONE of which is true or came from me and was made up by other posters who are getting their jollies out in inventing a narrative of me as a terrible helicopter mother.  [/b]

[b]Thank you so much for all who left kind and helpful comments and there were many of you. [/b] i am now stepping away.  [/quote]

Bravo!
There’s one unhinged lunatic isolated mother who LIVES to invent stuff. Her kids aren’t even in college anymore.

Just ignore and carry on.

GL to your kids![/quote]

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