My daughter is in 7th grade and her school just sent home a notice about PARCC testing coming up in a few weeks. We moved here from Illinois last year so she did the IAR practice tests there, and before that we were in Massachusetts doing MCAS practice test prep — so honestly I'm a little overwhelmed trying to figure out what's different about PARCC and what actually transfers over.
She's pretty solid in ELA but math is where we're nervous. I found some PARCC Mathematics Practice Questions online and had her work through a section last night — she said the format felt familiar but some of the multi-part questions tripped her up. We're trying to carve out maybe 20-30 minutes a night for the next three weeks doing practice tests and statewide test practice materials.
Has anyone been through this with a middle schooler? What actually helped — timed practice, content review, or just drilling the question formats? Would love to hear from parents who've done this before, especially if your kid struggled with the math section.