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    since we are in the same district my daughter who is in magnet didn't change to 6+ math until 6th grade.. Her score was the same at the end of 5th grade as it was in the fall of 6th. I know the RIT score can be higher but there is also more of a possibility of getting a question wrong with questions being more difficult. I also learned that MAP testing doesn't mean much in junior high. The highest MAP score kids don't always get the highest test scores in my daughter's Geometry class.

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    nicoledad.. weird as my 5th grader changed to 6 plus this year. smile

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    It may be something that changed this year. I think the change into MAP 2-5 is more dramatic than 6+ especially in Math is by 5th grade or so it seems obvious what your child is going to be taking through high school.

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    I just wanted to chime in that has not been our experience. 260/250 are definitely not the upper limits on the Math/Reading MAP 2-5. We have seen higher scores many times. In fact, DS has never scored below 260 on the Math MAP 2-5 but has scored substantially above that.

    I will say though it may be difficult to break the 250 barrier on the Reading MAP 2-5 due to unfamiliarity with technical literary terms or formal literary analysis techniques. I think that DS was able to score above 250 on the Reading MAP only because he has an extensive vocabulary and is extremely strong in non-fiction reading.

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    My high scorers in MAP reading (I presume they got the 2-5 test) commented that they got questions on Latin roots. Based purely on anecdote I would tentatively agree that content not commonly taught in primary grades may make it difficult to get above 250.

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    I am pretty sure that math score for grade 2-5 test can go beyond 260. My DD8 got over 270 in the beginning of the 4th grade. I know a kid who got over 280 at the end of 3rd grade and another who got 290 at the end of 4th grade. They all took grade 2-5 test. For our district, the high achievers can switch math test to 6th grade at the beginning of 5th grade but not before 5th grade.


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    Originally Posted by Keerby
    My high scorers in MAP reading (I presume they got the 2-5 test) commented that they got questions on Latin roots. Based purely on anecdote I would tentatively agree that content not commonly taught in primary grades may make it difficult to get above 250.

    When my ds was in 4th grade I had him doing Caesar's English 1 and 2 at home. He commented one day after taking a MAP test that he had several questions that he knew because he had just read it in his Caesar's English book.

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