SAT before 13th (urban legend or true?)

Consolation
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:21:07 +0000

Neither of my kids practiced for middle school SATs beyond looking at the very short practice test they send when you register. I do feel sorry for kids who get caught up in the testing arms race by their parents and study for them in middle school. The original idea had been to see how kids did without any special prep.



Same here. Our feeling was that if he didn’t get a good enough score without prep, then he didn’t belong in the program. The thought of people making their kids drill to get a good score at that age is horrific, to me. On the other hand, you can look at the list of kids who score over 700 on the math section and see what population is doing it. To be fair, perhaps they are just doing a lot of extra math tutoring in general, without the goal of scoring well on the talent searches.