Hunter Elementary Schools’ Admissions Warns Parents Not to Prepare for Testing!
It’s that time of year again for Manhattan parents to apply to Hunter Elementary School in New York City. Be sure to check the Hunter website to confirm when the completed application (application form, administrative fee, and birth certificate/adoption record) must be received in the Admissions Office.
It’s interesting to note Hunter’s position on preparing your child for the Stanford-Binet V test. The SB-5 is part of the vetting process for admission to Hunter Elementary School, one of the most competitive Kindergartens in the nation.
A NOTE ABOUT “PREPPING” FOR TESTING (From Hunter’s website)
“HCES strongly discourages exposing children to the Stanford-Binet 5 prior to the formal administration of the exam for the purpose of admission to HCES. Psychologists are required to inform the Director of Admissions if there is evidence that a child has had previous experience with the exam or specific exam activities. HCES reserves the right to disqualify any child from competition for admission if there is evidence that testing with the approved psychologist is not the child’s first experience with the exam.”
No matter what test your child is taking, we at TestingMom.com in no way condone exposing your child to the actual Stanford-Binet 5 or any other test your child takes. We DO encourage you to ensure your child is prepared with the concepts these exams evaluate. For example, the SB-5 evaluates the following concepts:
- Fluid Reasoning: early reasoning with pictures, analogies.
- Knowledge: vocabulary. Includes toys, identification of body parts, Verbal and Quantitative
- Reasoning: contains five different levels, tapping number concepts, problem solving, and figural-geometric/measurement estimation problems
- Visual-Spatial Processing
- Working Memory: memory for sentences and last word.
As you can tell, all the items above are broad enough in spectrum that you can easily incorporate them in your daily life with your child and aren’t exclusive to the Stanford-Binet IQ test, or any other child’s IQ test for that matter. For example, you can help your 4-year-old identify body parts while you are giving him a bath, or play a word game with your daughter in which she ends a sentence you say with an appropriate word. At TestingMom.com, we give parents (like us!) the tools and resources to effectively practice the concepts on the Stanford-Binet and other intelligence tests used for private school admissions and G&T programs.
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