<p>I applied to Exeter before knowing this, but I still think its a fantastic school!</p>
<p>Exeter 2013 average SAT math score is 709 (see exeter.edu website - college counseling - profile for colleges). According to the graph, most students scored over 750, (but the distribution is skewed because there is not a higher score category than 750-800). </p>
<p>The poster above may be comparing subject test scores to the main SAT score - very different tests.</p>
<p>My sister’s school followed the Exeter math curriculum, and she says about half love it and half hate it.</p>
<p>I think thats reassuring :D</p>
<p>You just have to do well yourself. I don’t really mind about the average.
I’m applying for 10th grade because I felt I didn’t really feel prepared.</p>
<p>@ameripen
Could you ask your sister why “half hate it”? So far I’ve only heard the positives and the things that are supposed to be good with Exeter math but no real criticisms of it.</p>
<p>^^check earlier posts jzs584. Short form–it does not follow a course book-- indeed, there isn’t any-- instead, as you can check by looking at the exeter.edu website, it just has questions and from answering the questions–the students figure out the math. The questions are frequently constructed so as to have different --sometimes very different ways–of solving them. The classroom work is for each student to chose a question and write his or her answer on the white board just before class and then in turn explain the answer to the class–who often will ask questions about the question or the answer-- the teacher might ask if someone had solved it a different way, and if so to show that way. </p>
<p>Most of the questions have at least a part if not all a “word problem” component-- meaning that the student has to figure out what the mathematical question to be solved happens to be. If a student has difficulties with figuring out that sort of problem, then the system breaks down-- the student might be very competent in solving a straight forward mathematical question, but lost at the first step of the assignments.</p>
<p>For some kids, it brings intellectual challenge and fun, for others, confusion. Thankfully most get the hang of it fairly quickly and love it-- but some never do.</p>