The School Admissions Survival Guide - Part 2 (Testing Survival Guide Book 9)

The School Admissions Survival Guide – Get Your Pre-K to 6th Grader Ready For Testing!
Testing For Gifted & Talented Programs or Testing For Private School Admissions. Includes expert answers to commonly-asked testing questions, brought to you by TestingMom.com.

The language you hear around testing sounds like a game of Scrabble – OLSAT®, CogAT®, BSRA®, GATE Testing, ERB, WPPSI™-III or IV, WISC™-IV, WNV™, Stanford-Binet 4 or 5®, NNAT-2®, Naglieri®, KBIT™-2, Raven’s Matrices®, RIAS®, TAG testing, MAP® Testing, Woodcock-Johnson® III Tests of Achievement, G&T programs, the list of acronyms goes on and on!

Perhaps you live in a school district where the best classrooms available are in the gifted program and everyone has their children tested before they even enter kindergarten. You might be applying your child to a competitive private school that requires an IQ test as part of the application. Or maybe you live in a city where all children start school in general education classrooms and gifted and talented testing doesn’t begin until 2nd or 3rd grade.

Whatever is the case, with so much riding on the outcome of these tests, you cannot leave the results to chance. The more you know about the various tests administered to children for school admissions, the more you can help your child succeed and get the best placement possible!

In this guide, we will answer questions from parents about gifted and talented testing, private schools, giftedness in children, kindergarten and early childhood education, how to prepare for a test, school admissions, New York City testing, New York City gifted and talented programs, tutoring, shyness and competitiveness in children, and ESL (English as a second language). We tell you why it is important to prepare your child, and give you tips on how best to get your child ready for gifted and talented testing without creating too much stress!

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