Anonymous wrote:Since so many scorers can pay to land in the 1400-1500 range, my guess is that they made the 2nd math module more difficult to help differentiate gifted kids from great study skills kids.

Sorry but the bolded is a crock of $#!%

N9 one is paying their way to a 1400-1500 score. The kids who prep into that range are kids who are fully capable of hitting those scores with or without prep.

The 1200 +/- minus kids are not going to be able to tutor themselves to an upper 98-99% score, no matter how much money and time their parents throw at it.

The ability of expensive test prep to hit scores like that is a myth repeated by disgruntled parents comparing their kids to other kids.

I’ve seen several places that the in school test wasn’t as bad as the Saturday test. Should be interesting to see if the scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Since so many scorers can pay to land in the 1400-1500 range, my guess is that they made the 2nd math module more difficult to help differentiate gifted kids from great study skills kids.

So you are saying they truly changed the test and how it tests the kids.

DC had close to perfect practice DSAT in math under timed conditions. He said the second module was nothing like the practice ones - does nothing he bombed it but does not think he broke 700 on it either.

English he said was harder but he was averaging around 650 on the practice tests.


Guess we will know on 3/22 how things shake out.

Very similar to my kid- got a 780 on both practice tests they took and couldn’t come close to even finishing Saturday’s test…having said that, took it again today ( in-school testing day) and thought it was much better than Saturday (which dispels the notion that the test was fundamentally changed, or at least intentionally so).

Anonymous wrote:Since so many scorers can pay to land in the 1400-1500 range, my guess is that they made the 2nd math module more difficult to help differentiate gifted kids from great study skills kids.

So you are saying they truly changed the test and how it tests the kids.

DC had close to perfect practice DSAT in math under timed conditions. He said the second module was nothing like the practice ones - does nothing he bombed it but does not think he broke 700 on it either.

English he said was harder but he was averaging around 650 on the practice tests.


Guess we will know on 3/22 how things shake out.