I hope this doesn’t turn out to be the case and I agree it’s not a good situation. I’ve heard similar things from other states. It seems to me that at the very least one could remove items from the test bank that are no longer in the Core. However, even if that doesn’t happen it’s conceivable that sticking to the focus in the Common Core will be beneficial because it could improve performance on most of the test. For example, if 20% of your current consists of material that is no longer in the core, it might still be a good strategy to focus strongly on the other 80% and let the 20% go, in the sense that it could improve performance on the test overall. The promise of focus and coherence is that greater proficiency with fewer topics will serve a student better than a weak grasp of many topics. Of course, I understand how difficult it must be to make that leap in practice.