Did anyone ever hear of this?

happymomof1
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:50:41 +0000

MCPS has been playing around with which grades take the real PSAT and which grades take a pseudo-PSAT offered by one of the test-prep companies for several years now. If memory serves, when Happykid was in 9th grade, the 9th graders got the real one, the 10th graders got the fake one, and the 11th graders (of course) got the real one, but by the time she was in 12th grade the 9th graders got the fake one and the 10th graders got the real one.

Rumor has is that the whole thing started when enough pushy middle class parents in some high schools insisted that their 9th and 10th graders get to practice the exam before 11th grade that the schedule for all students that day became hopelessly messed up. It sure makes life easier for the school administration to tell the 12th graders to stay home one morning a year and to trap all the other students firmly in classrooms during the testing period!