<p>turbo93 hit the nail on the head about the problem with the math curriculum in our high school as well. I remember the year my D could successfully do all the problems given in class, all the problems in her math text and online resources for the chapter, and yet was barely passing the exams. (I even posted a thread about it!) We hired a tutor, who told us D knows the material perfectly well, and was at a loss about what to help her with. We too had no access to the exams to find out what D wasn’t getting correct. The math dept. philosophy was that honor students needed to be able to apply what they learned to problems 3 levels of difficulty above those taught in class. It was really frustrating for students who were smart kids but needed to actually practice and learn skills to solve those difficult problems.</p>