Anonymous wrote:my DC scored 238, in pool for MAP M but not selected in the round 1. However, the classmates scored 220s was selected. I always that they have to be at the 85th percentile locally normed. we are in the low farm rate 15% still not sure how 220 qualifies for CES.
For MAP-M they look at both 5th grade fall and 4th grade spring percentiles. (This is covered in FAQs of MS magnet selection in MCPS website). This is to factor in the fact that kids in 5/6 compacted math take the 6+ MAP-M in fall (a new battery questions with higher order concepts not encountered in elementary school). This in turn means declines in raw RIT scores for some kids in fall map-M (especially those without outside enrichment and/or not having had exposure to these concepts). So a kid with 220s in fall may have had a much higher score (e.g. high 230s) in spring of 4th grade (and likely consistently before). Heard of at least one such case in our network.