Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader is a good reader and smart - The SOL score however is lower than last year's and just barely pass-advanced. I don't know why they cannot release the questions/answers for the students to review and learn from.

I'm in the same place.I have the same question for a very long time . why arent they giving away the test the kids did ?, Its is even much easier since its online . For all these years i literally couldn't understand my child's strengths and weakness . ofcourse at class level test and SOL Pass all the time she gets 100 % , so I can never understand whats something is she struggling when it comes to SOL .

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Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader is a good reader and smart - The SOL score however is lower than last year's and just barely pass-advanced. I don't know why they cannot release the questions/answers for the students to review and learn from.

Troll? That would literally be teaching to the test...

Why would your first impression be "Troll?" - and are you saying there is no value in learning from mistakes?

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader is a good reader and smart - The SOL score however is lower than last year's and just barely pass-advanced. I don't know why they cannot release the questions/answers for the students to review and learn from.

Troll? That would literally be teaching to the test...

My 4th grader is a good reader and smart - The SOL score however is lower than last year's and just barely pass-advanced. I don't know why they cannot release the questions/answers for the students to review and learn from.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the scores are the difference of one or two questions right or wrong. SOLs are not that deep.

The reading SOL is also poorly written with ambiguous answer choices. I've heard that in the past, but my 4th grader took home a practice test this year and I found it to be quite true in reviewing with him. There were several where I could make an argument for 2 different answers and I'm a grown adult with a college degree!

True.. some of them i felt 3 options are correct

Anonymous wrote:Some of the scores are the difference of one or two questions right or wrong. SOLs are not that deep.

The reading SOL is also poorly written with ambiguous answer choices. I've heard that in the past, but my 4th grader took home a practice test this year and I found it to be quite true in reviewing with him. There were several where I could make an argument for 2 different answers and I'm a grown adult with a college degree!

Anonymous wrote:Some of the scores are the difference of one or two questions right or wrong. SOLs are not that deep.

We say that, but next year, the SOLs will be 10% of the student's final grade. It's going to get a whole lot deeper soon ...

Some of the scores are the difference of one or two questions right or wrong. SOLs are not that deep.

My 7th grader scored lower than she ever has (usually close to perfect- this year 530). But she also has a terrible teacher. Not sure if it was harder or not, but I don’t think it really matters…

Anonymous wrote:Different Tests ? Can you give me more information please , I'm un aware of it .

It’s adaptive. Everyone can end up with different reading passages.

Different Tests ? Can you give me more information please , I'm un aware of it .

There are different tests out there.

Nope. My 7th grader got 20 points higher than last year and said all of her friends were well above 500. This is a mix of regular and Honors kids, none are in AAP.

My 7th grader scored within 10 points of what they scored last year...

Hi All ,
DD is at Rachel Carson (English AA) , i was shocked to see her scores they are below 500 , she has never gone below 500 ,last year her score is 590 . Also she told many of her classmates were in the range , so I was wondering if it was really hard this time ?