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Are you smarter than a 4-year-old? Find out with the practice questions below that are given to 4-year-old kids to get into some of the most competitive kindergartens in the United States for gifted and talented and private schools. Even if a child scores a 99th percentile that still doesn’t guarantee placement in cities like […]

For parents familiar with the CogAT® test, it’s hard to believe that it’s almost that time of year again. The summer is winding down and soon kids across the country will be filing back into the classroom. Along with all the homework and extracurricular activities, kids will also be getting ready to take the Cognitive […]

Well, it’s the time of year for the back to school checklist.  I can’t tell you how many parents I’ve talked to who failed to get their child ready for the beginning of the school year. Proper back-to-school preparations are about much more than buying pencils and backpacks from Amazon, Wal-mart or Target. Back-to-school activities […]

For many parents, the relatively recent introduction of the State Standards Initiative’s Common Core has represented a challenge. How much will this new way of learning and teaching change the fairly routine process of test prep? Thankfully, with a bit of research, standards-based test prep becomes as easy as any standardized test your child has […]

The AABL Test assesses a child’s skills in the area of quantitative reasoning and mathematical skills. This covers a myriad of individual abilities, including: • computational skills (counting, adding, subtracting), • higher order mathematical thinking (patterning, sequencing, ordering, classifying, comparing), and • math reasoning (solving mathematical problems, understanding concepts of relativity, directionality, time, measurement). Hundreds […]

In the state of California, home of the California Standards Test, there are very specific testing criteria in place to ensure that each student receives a quality education. The standardized tests used to assess student progress are known by several different names. The California Standards Test (CST) is also commonly called the STAR exam or […]

The time is inching closer to the NYC gifted and talented test for all the talented tots across the 5 boroughs. Here are some sample questions for the New York City Gifted and Talented test.Are you smarter than a 4-year-old? Well, find out with the questions below. These are the types of questions a 4-year-old […]

Are you smart enough to get into a New York City elite kindergarten? Or should we ask are you ready, willing and AABL®? AABL, as in the Admissions Assessment for Beginning Learners®. Things have changed for NYC parents who are vying for a spot in some of the most competitive schools in the world. But we’re […]

The AABL Test assesses a child’s skills in the area of Verbal Reasoning. Verbal reasoning is a child’s ability to tune in, understand, and reason using language they hear or pictures they see. As students get older, this would be their ability to reasoning skills to solve problems or answer questions related to what they […]

If you’ve been parenting school age children in California for a while, you probably already know all about the CDE STAR test. If you’re a newcomer to the state, however, or if your young child is about to start school, the California Department of Education’s STAR test may be new territory for you. Here, we’ll […]