Birth quarter one is the three months closest to the english basket ball eligibility cut off date. So if you are born in august, you'll take in your exam almost 12 months earlier than someone who is born in september. In new york state, all the big elementary school math and english standardized tests are in late march, early april. At that age, kids get smarter every week but we're trying to assess kids by their test scores. And some of the kids we're judging have been around as much as a year longer than other kids. Why don't we have the january kids all take the test in january, and the february kids in fe