Dottie,

I loved reading your kids impressions. Sorry about your car... How funny for your DS to avoid using scrap paper. DD stated science as the easiest probably because it's her favorite. Maybe she found it more interesting than reading and it "felt" easier.

As far as results, was it closer to 6 weeks last year? They told us 4-6 weeks and I am hoping we would get results before our spring conferences which are at the 4.5 week mark for us. You are correct, I have no idea what to expect, since DD has only done 3rd grade achievement last year. What do you hope to see or achieve with the repeat of the Explore? Their booklet suggested repeating the test under certain circumstances. I would have thought they would be happy to get "repeat customers"