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In reply to the discussion: When Parents Yank Their Kids Out of Standardized Tests [View all]winter is coming
(11,785 posts)test. Then they review the worksheets. Then they take the practice tests. Then they review those, and perhaps do even more worksheets. Then they take the real test. They also take the Stanford test, every year and do prep for that, too. And they are so fixated on everyone taking the test, I've got a seventh grader who has to take the 7th grade math test and also the algebra test, instead of simply taking the algebra test. 'Cause, you know, the the standardized test she took last year to show that she already had command of the 7th and 8th grade math curriculum and and could therefore take algebra early (after taking yet another test to show she was ready for algebra) wasn't enough.
When I was a kid, we took only the Stanford tests. We didn't take them every year, and we didn't do any prep for them.