NNAT practice test online?
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Anonymous
| NNAT Is there any website that I can show my child what the test is like? Like a real simulation? I am not familiar with it, i just wanted to show my child before the test day at school so they are familiar with the format. |
Anonymous
| OP: I found websites that have free questions, but I am looking for a full test simulation. Thanks in advance. |
Anonymous
I am not sure about full online simulation, but this website was recommended to us by our first grade teacher last year https://www.mercerpublishing.com/nnat/sample-questions |
Anonymous
| You can buy a book on Amazon, if you want a full length practice. It won't be online though. |
Anonymous
I have a really hard time believing any 1st grade teacher recommended prepping for the nnat. Nice try. |
Anonymous
Why do you assume prepping? This was provided by our teacher for kids to become familiar with the test format from a reputable source. Your response is just, well … try to do some self-reflection and understand why you are looking for falsehoods in other people without fully understanding what they are talking about. |
Anonymous
No way is a teacher recommending that site. |
Anonymous
This. Former FCPS teacher If you’re telling the truth, please disclose the year and school so I can verify this. |
Anonymous
Interesting. Are you saying our teacher did something wrong by providing that info to parents? Btw .. asking for details about school and to basically single out the teacher is out of place. Why don’t you use your full name and affiliation with FCPS instead of posting anonymously? But then, I wouldn’t ask you for that since there is a reason why this thread offers privacy. If there was some inappropriate action done by our teacher why don’t you explain it nicely here so that other parents and teachers can benefit from that information instead of taking it on yourself to “verify”. |
Anonymous
We are directly instructed what we can and cannot say related to the exam. We can advise to get a good night’s sleep, we can go over instructions, etc. Your alleged comment is not believable, so I’m not saying the teacher did something wrong. I’m saying you’re not telling the truth. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, FCPS policy is so ununiformly carried out that I would not be surprised that a Teacher would tell parents where to practice for the NNAT. There are plenty of schools where the parents are obsessed with AAP, look at the postings on this board. There are AARTs who give out packets before they are supposed to. There are AARTs that review packets for parents. There are AARTs who do all sorts of things that other AARTs won't do because they are in violation of FCPS rules.
Or like how some schools maintain regular LIII pullouts and others rarely hold them. Or how some schools have pullouts for LII and some schools do only worksheets and some schools do nothing. |
Anonymous
Thank you for pointing this out. I am the poster who provided the link and I just wanted to clarify that our teacher never encouraged parents to prep kids for NNAT. She, too, emphasized the good night rest, breakfast etc. (almost copy-paste what the other poster said), but she also provided the link for parents in case they would like to learn what the NNAT is and what the sample questions look like. I’d like to think of her as one of the genuinely good teachers, but I hear you that providing that link might have been against FCPS rules. I, personally, wish the test would go away or, if necessary, to have FCPS work with the publisher of the test on providing samples that can be shared with the parents, so we don’t have to look elsewhere to find more about the test. After seeing sample NNAT questions, I don’t believe that you can make your kid get significantly higher score by prepping unless you got your hands on the actual test, which I don’t think is possible. At best, kids might score slightly higher due to familiarity with the format of the test, but this won’t help them get into AAP without good GBRS and otherwise good overall performance. |
Anonymous
The last paragraph is because schools have discretion with regard to how the aarts are used. Some use them so they do grade wide lessons. This way the art gets to know all kids and assess all kids. This is push ins. This helps those posters from saying that the art has no clue who her kid is.). The second way is to use them for pull outs. It helps those kids who may not do well on the nnat but still deserve some extra evaluation. This works when either the teacher self selects kids for pull outs or it’s based on nnat or cogat scores - or both (teacher identified kids + kids who score high). This helps those kids who easily stand out as bright but not the shy kids. But this is not the same as telling kids to look at how to get practice on the types of questions before the nnat. That didn’t happen. |
Anonymous
check https://a4ace.com/practice/categories/nnat-26 for a free practice test |
Anonymous
If your Teacher was sending out a link for parents to use with their kids, she was encouraging prep without calling it that. She probably does that because too many parents ask and it is an easy way of stopping those questions. But sending parents to a link for practicing the test before the test is outside of FCPS policy. The teachers at our school wouldn't do that. We are at a school were level II is worksheets, LIII is a semi-regular hour long pull out (there are periods were there is no LIII for a few weeks in a row), and where the AART and Teachers will not discuss LIV outside of generic recommendations and references. |