School's Prep Questions Very Similar to Real Exam ; Dramatic Improvement by Dayton's City Day Community Students Gets Closer Look.

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DAYTON -- Last March, fifth graders at City Day Community School knew which unit of measurement Bob used to cover a floor with carpet. Sixth graders knew that 6 -- not 2, 3 or 12 -- was the largest number that divided both 12 and 30 evenly. And seventh graders knew that the square Coral drew was a rhombus because it had four sides. The question is, how did they know? In each case the students had seen these questions -- or questions that were nearly identical -- on practice tests they took the week before the school administered the Ohio Achievement Tests.

In all, a Dayton Daily News examination found 44 questions on practice tests taken by City Day students that were identical or substantially the same as questions that appeared on the actual state exam they took just days later.

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School's Prep Questions Very Similar to Real Exam ; Dramatic Improvement by Dayton's City Day Community Students Gets Closer Look.

And when state report cards came out last year, huge ga...

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