Two years ago, the pool decisions were released first via an email from central office.

By Dec. 6th or 7th, we learned individual scores via letters sent through USPS. No system-wide testing glitches though.

Last year they came around Dec 5th or 6th via USPS mail. I think they may also have been posted to SIS. I understood that that was considered very early from past years. Since the testing was taken later due to technical difficulties, I wouldn't anticipate your scores to come in until AFTER the deadline to submit on Dec 15.

Regardless, you won't have clarity on pool decisions until after the deadline as well, so you should plan on submitting yourself, and not relying on high test score to be in-pool.

Bumping this to see if anyone has heard more about when scores may come out.

Anonymous wrote:About work sample, our AART said the student packet is allowed to have 6, and she will prepare 6 work samples for every packet. If the parent referral included 2 samples, she'll use the parent 2 and school's best 4 samples.

If a schools sample are better than a parent sample, she'll reach out and let parent decide.

Ours said the same last year and she never circled back w/ a choice. I guess she thought the school options were better. When we saw what was submitted, we realized they had no idea what they were doing bc the samples they didn’t use, which came home after the packet was submitted, were much more in line with what the committee was expecting to see. We used those on appeal and kid got in.

I strongly recommend submitting 1 or 2 from home. We trusted school to handle all samples (they did great with older kids - but those folks had retired) and regretted it. If there’s an area that child presents as weaker on testing/report card/teacher feedback, I’d use your home sample as an opportunity to show strength in that area.

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Anonymous wrote:Took on Halloween.

Did you not get hit with the delay that hit everyone because something was wrong with the test company's computer systems or whatever? I'm not sure if you'll get your scores 6 weeks or whatever after your kid finishes *their* assessment or if you'd have to wait until howevermany weeks after all the kids finish their assessment (and our school just took it last week). So it really might be awhile.

That was really late test taki by. The problem was fixed in October. I guess the scores will be out in January.

Wow that’s nice to allow parents to pick the ) samples.

About work sample, our AART said the student packet is allowed to have 6, and she will prepare 6 work samples for every packet. If the parent referral included 2 samples, she'll use the parent 2 and school's best 4 samples.

If a schools sample are better than a parent sample, she'll reach out and let parent decide.

Anonymous wrote:Took on Halloween.

Did you not get hit with the delay that hit everyone because something was wrong with the test company's computer systems or whatever? I'm not sure if you'll get your scores 6 weeks or whatever after your kid finishes *their* assessment or if you'd have to wait until howevermany weeks after all the kids finish their assessment (and our school just took it last week). So it really might be awhile.

Do a writing one and a math one. Have the kid write a story or a description of something they like. For math we had our kid write out the answers to some more challenging math questions that the school sometimes sends home. We would do those extra math problems anyway, we just had him write out the answers in a neater way for the week we used for the packet.

If the kid is artistic, a very detailed picture of something creative could also work.

What are people submitting as work samples? We don't get much back from school other than worksheets.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting, why not submit samples of work

Finding work samples is work. If DD is in-pool, the teacher will submit work samples.

If you parent refer, teachers will also submit. Everyone should fill out the parent questionnaire regardless of pool status. Both my kids had over 140 on both tests. Still filled out the questionnaire and submitted one or two work samples. A piece of writing for each because their CogAT verbal scores were lower than I expected based on their abilities and then this math thing my kid created at home (for fun, not for AAP).