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One month to go. Our score is on the edge for the school my kid wants. So just curious if people think cut scores will go up or down this year? I keep hearing about lots of good scores but is that just on here? What are you all hearing? Our kid did better than expected on the test so that’s my sample of 1 LOL. He’d be so happy to get in where he wants so just trying to prep our expectations. Right on the line from last years scores.
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Just chiming in to say we are in the same boat and wondering. I have no real information. My kid’s friends (neighborhood school in Tier 4 area) seem to have done really well on the test — I think every score I heard was in the 90s on each side. But I don’t know what that means in the big picture.
Cut scores seem to climb year-to-year (more kids doing extra test prep? more schools teaching to the test?), but CPS population is also dropping, so there should be fewer kids competing. <shrug>
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Anecdotally, it seems that this year’s HSAT was a bit tougher than last year’s apparently “easier” inaugural HSAT (hence the numerous 900 scores). If that really was the case, it would seem that this year’s cut scores will be slightly lower. But, who knows, they may have gone up too; we really can’t know. One thing we can know for sure, wouldn’t take this forum as a representative sample size about scores, it seems there are a number of active parents on here trying to get their kid into Payton/Northside and those concerned about 899/900 sub-scores. Definitely a small sliver of the total pool of kids applying to all the SEHS spots in the city.
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fyi, there is no 899 score possible. It goes from 900 to 898.
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Why wouldn’t 899 be possible? I see even scores with decimals on the cutoff sheet from last year. It just happened to be so that 899 was nowhere a maximum or a minimum score for any tier or school, but that does not mean no one got a score of 899.
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A Math or Reading score in the 99th percentile earns students 225 points; 98th percentile scores receive 223 points. A score of 899 isn’t possible for this reason. You see scores with decimals because an A is worth 112.5 points, so if a student only got an A in 1 or 3 out of 4 possible subjects, their points total will end in “.5”.
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If you are saying half points are attributed to grades, not test scores, how do you explain a minimum score of 846.5 for tier 2 Northside? To get that score, you must have all A’s.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rHkqLClX76NLOXv3O65WiL9xY1UJla6b/view?usp=drivesdk
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You do not need all As to get that score. You need 3 As, 1 B, 96th percentile in one content area, and 95th percentile in the other.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1enfNw17AWpPrLmHsjJe3Qg6ugtCX-9ka/view?usp=sharing
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