Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Did anyone get EXPLORE score for Feb 18, 2012?

Eligible to take EXPLORE through NUMATS = eligible for GLL Enrichment and Core Essentials (3rd-8th grade) classes. You only need EXPLORE scores for Honors & AP classes.

http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/gll/program/eligibility/

For NUMATS, you would be mistaken. "We don’t have scores yet for you from the testing agency. Check back with us in a while."

If it takes as long to process February as it did to process January, scores will be in the toolbox this coming Saturday 3/31.

Thanks for clarifying! The student guide didn't clearly state that. That's good that my daughter can take them no matter what the score.

I have checked the toolbox, but it is not there yet.

Keep checking the toolbox. We got our scores from Jan on a Saturday morning from the tool box. It probably took 6 weeks. It was a couple more weeks before we got them in the mail.

I actually called ACT today (and lol, they asked if I was in IL and said, "yeah, those are the parents that seem to call us," - ouch!). Anyway, they said that they are going out in the mail this week and early next week, as they process them. She made it sound like some were going in the mail today. So, I'm a little surprised that NUMATS doesn't have them. When I asked NUMATS, they said that they hoped to have them in the mailboxes early next week, but by that point, we may have the paper copies. And I also asked about the GLL sticker, which they agreed was misleading. Personally, I think that putting a "congratulations" sticker on their brochure is just trying to sucker in proud parents.

I plan to meet with my ds10's team this spring and they specifically wanted to see the EXPLORE scores. They seem more receptive to differentiating based on achievement scores. Ds11 took the SAT in Jan through his local school district and I've heard that those scores takes FOREVER (well, it was 1/21 and we don't have them, although I bet the school does). I hate waiting.

It seems that we have to be patient.

DS2 took the test in Jan & it took at least 6 weeks to obtain the scores from ACT. I called more than once & got the "It's almost in the mail!" answer each time. DS2 took the test thru Duke TIP & we haven't heard Boo from Duke. No idea if we will. His scores were pretty good (or so they seemed to me), but not sure what Duke even does, if anything, for those students who have high scores on the EXPLORE. DS1 never took the EXPLORE because we didn't even know it existed.

DS1 has taken both the ACT & SAT and his scores did not take as long as the EXPLORE scores.

MidwestDad, I'd be very interested to hear how you achieve differentiation for your DS based on his EXPLORE scores. I thought about sending copies of my DS's scores to school, but doubt anything would happen aside from his teachers saying, "Good job!" I'll probably send the scores for that purpose, but differentiation would not happen

Our kids' 4th grade teacher gave "you are bad parents" vibes when we even mentioned that we were considering having them take the Explore. Thus no, in our case there was no differentiation as a result of the test, despite amazingly high scores. We did sign them up for online courses through NUMATS, though, and that was a good thing.

In fact, it is my DD10 who took the explore exam. She took the exam last year, and missed the cutoff of NUMats ceremony by 4 points. She wanted took again to beat the cutoff. She does not really need the score to do anything, because she is already in the GT program in our school district.