SAT before 13th (urban legend or true?)

Zparent
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:15:07 +0000

I don’t think parents always know how well their kid is going to do on an out-of-level test. I could narrow my D’s likely score down to about a 200 pt range, as it turned out she scored a bit higher than I thought likely. Had I known, I would have had her do the test a couple months earlier while she was still eligible for SET - she sometimes feels overshadowed by a younger sib. But, who knows, maybe those few months mattered.

A friend of D’s moved during HS and was able to use middle school SAT scores to get placed in honors/AP classes post-move. It’s not a situation that everyone is going to face, but that family was glad that they had the scores.

As far as why use an out-of-level test in placement decisions, it’s something commonly done when thinking about acceleration (which AP is, technically). MAP tests are used for that too, but SAT/ACT is probably more useful for decisions during high school.