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Anonymous wrote:Age: 7 years 4 month at test

Composite: Score -129
Quant: Score -123 Raw Score - 41/50
Verbal: Score -139 Raw Score - 49/54
Non-Verbal: Score -117 Raw Score - 42/52

What kind of parent even knows these freaking numbers? That's a little scary.

Um, parents that can read? (Hint: they're written on the results form you get)

Anonymous wrote:Age: 7 years 4 month at test

Composite: Score -129
Quant: Score -123 Raw Score - 41/50
Verbal: Score -139 Raw Score - 49/54
Non-Verbal: Score -117 Raw Score - 42/52

What kind of parent even knows these freaking numbers? That's a little scary.

Age: 7 years 4 month at test

Composite: Score -129
Quant: Score -123 Raw Score - 41/50
Verbal: Score -139 Raw Score - 49/54
Non-Verbal: Score -117 Raw Score - 42/52

I agree with all the posters here. If I can get 1 or 2 replies like below would be great. This will really help lot of people.

Age: 7 years 8 months on the day of test
Quantitative: Score: 132 Raw Score: 43/50
Verbal: Score: Raw Score:
Non Verbal: Score: Raw Score.

It changes for every pool. By cycle, by age, by grade, by year. Everything.

It's a statistical score based on each test pool and assumes a normal distribution (Bell curve). 116 is one standard deviation above the norm (top 16%), 132 is two standard deviations above norm (Top 2%).

It would be a different raw score for each pool.

It's why the separate FCPS score is flawed. Too small a pool to achieve a statistically significant measure and assure a normal distribution.

Anonymous wrote:Just want to know from parents who are already in AAP program. Just making up some numbers to show. Ex: Score: Verbal 135 raw score 45/54, Math: 132 raw score: 45/50 That is all I am asking. I don't need to know the month born if you don't want to give. We are not trying to force. He is really intelligent and works hard.

You would need the raw month to figure out score. Just like the NNAT people can miss different amounts and come out with different scores. Age is the big factor in what the raw score is. So getting raw scores without knowing age won't do anything for you. What if 45/50 is 132 for age seven years nine months but is a 140 for age seven years.

Also - I was speaking to an assistant principal last week and she said that eventually she thinks they will move to computer for CoGAT but it will not be this year.

If your child is intelligent then it will come out in the test. Just try not to worry.

Thank you all for the reply. We don't need to worry about it as they might change the format etc. Thanks again for all the replies.

I keep hearing they're switching up the COGAT this year-- content and/or timing. Like they did with the NNAT in the spring. Maybe to cope with parent prepping? TBA next month. So even if you can get this info, it's not likely to be very useful.

Anonymous wrote:Just want to know from parents who are already in AAP program. Just making up some numbers to show. Ex: Score: Verbal 135 raw score 45/54, Math: 132 raw score: 45/50 That is all I am asking. I don't need to know the month born if you don't want to give. We are not trying to force. He is really intelligent and works hard.

I wouldn't worry about it then. It sounds as though he is a good fit for the program and the test plus all the other indications they are looking for will put him into the right placement. Also, at this young age, I would not be as worried about the working hard part of the equation. They're only in second grade and they can learn how to work hard as they mature. The more important aspect for the second and third graders is intelligence.

Just want to know from parents who are already in AAP program. Just making up some numbers to show. Ex: Score: Verbal 135 raw score 45/54, Math: 132 raw score: 45/50 That is all I am asking. I don't need to know the month born if you don't want to give. We are not trying to force. He is really intelligent and works hard.

Anonymous wrote:Great. Thanks for the info. If you can put raw score and the COGAT score and the month born would be great. That will really help what we need to aim for. Appreciate it very much.

Aim? Either kid has it or he doesn't.

How exactly are you (as part of the "we") "aiming" for an AAP-worthy score? I don't have a problem with you showing youf kid some similar questions and explaining the idea....but I do have a problem with parents who want to force their kids into a program that they can't get to on their own.

Turn down the pressure already.

Great. Thanks for the info. If you can put raw score and the COGAT score and the month born would be great. That will really help what we need to aim for. Appreciate it very much.

It depends on the age of the child. Different years and months allow for different raw scores being equated with different scaled score.

My summer bday kid could get more wrong and still get the same scaled score as a kid with a dec. bday. If your child was "held back" and therefore older than most kids, that will make it slightly harder for him/her to get the same scaled score (less room to get questions wrong).

If a kid who is 6 yrs. and 3 mos. gets 45/50 right for XXX scaled score, then a kid who is 7 yrs. and 3 mos. need to get better than 45/50 to get the same scaled score.

Can any one tell me what was the raw score for COGAT more than 130?