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You are incorrect in yoir posting on one fact.

It is not the nationwide scores that are pulling the scores down.

It is the specific Fairfax County scores.

Look at your score sheet. The grade level percentages, which are the nationwide 2nd grade scores, are much, much higher than the local scores, especially with the kids who scored just below the cut off in the 90-96% range.

getting 2 or 3 wrong and a score in the 120's seems correct. remember, that is scored against children nationally. So with that volume of children, there are alot who only get 0 or 1 wrong.

I think the most important number is how they scored against the other 12,000+ 2nd graders who took the test. For instance if your % is 90%, then approximately 10% of 1,200 kids did better than you on that section. I think this is very important info to the committee, and in fact last year was the only information reported to parents... the fairfax county percentage.

Some kids aren't redshirted! They're born in October and FCPS doesn't give you the option to start them in K a so called year early.

This is where all the redshirted does not benefit kids, either the exception of last year's pool

Grade is also nationwide. That score percentage will be much higher than the local scores.

For example, my child is in the 9th stanine nationally (96%) but only the7th stanine in Fairfax County second graders (86%).

Anonymous wrote:I have same question. Is raw score also calculated based on age or purely based on how many correct/wrong. Thanks

I don't have my Dc's scores. But I thought the raw score was number correct out of how many questions. It is just the facts, not a score. Age and Grade are the ones that are calculated to give a % or SAS. Grade is compared to other 2nd graders, Age is compared to other children the same age (within a month or two). Therefor the two scores could be different based on the child's age.

Anonymous wrote:I have same question. Is raw score also calculated based on age or purely based on how many correct/wrong. Thanks

Raw score is the number correct out of number of items. Grade score is calculated based on the grade level (2nd grade). So if you have an older child, grade may be higher than age. Younger child age may be higher than grade. Hope that helps.

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I have same question. Is raw score also calculated based on age or purely based on how many correct/wrong. Thanks

Anonymous wrote:How old is your child? Is she older for the grade?

Agreed, must be older. My child had more questions incorrect (I think it was 4) and the same score.

How old is your child? Is she older for the grade?

I am trying to understand how are CoGat scores calculated based on raw scores. My kid's raw score in non verbal was 50 out of 52. But her score was 136 in that category. assuming maximum is 160, then how is 136 calculated. It should be higher. Any comments ? Also is the composited VQN score considered for evaluation ? Or the best category is picked up ?