Congrats to DD on the scores. In previous years from the Duke talent search, a 500 was about the 80% for reading and for math.
She got around a 500 last year on the CR section as a 6th grader, but didn't make the awards b/c she didn't do too well on math. I'm not sure that she'll get in for that reason. Even though her CR and writing sections were certainly in the top 10-20 percent of her grade, they look at the total combined score from all three. Only those who are in the top 25% for the combined score will get an award. Her math score was in the mid 400s. Math she does not learn by osmosis & she's only taken up through mid-7th grade math, so that's about where I'd expect her to fall on that. We'll see, though.
eta: I just spoke w/ the director of our talent search for a totally different reason (a question on the JKC scholarship app) and she tells me that quite a few things are different this year:
1) you can do the talent search testing w/ a grade level achievement score in the 90th percentile rather than 95th that it used to be (which may make scores from this pool lower
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2) writing being included in the awards is new
3) they are now giving awards for the top 25% on
any subtest, not just the composite score. She felt that dd would likely be in that group with her scores, so I'll start by talking to the choir teacher and see what we can make work.
