July 31, 2013

Chicago, IL –There has been much fanfare lately regarding CPS’ addition of some earlier test dates for the Selective Enrollment Entrance Exam. Although the actual dates have yet to be announced, CPS has said that it plans to start high school testing by the end of October – and continue testing into December and January. (Dates for Academic Center testing are expected to remain as in prior years – primarily in December and January). CPS has announced that for these earlier test dates, students will be able to take their exam and get back the results before they fill out their applications. According to some, this will benefit students by giving them the opportunity to rank their Selective Enrollment High School choices more accurately. However, it’s not clear that this is true or that there really are any benefits to students of earlier testing. In fact, there are certainly costs to doing so.

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