Benefit of NNAT Prep

[Anonymous]

Or your kid would have gotten the same score.

We didn't know that the NNAT was going to be given. We have one child and were not aware of AAP or anything like that when he started school. I am sure that there were mentions of NNAT in the newsletters that the school sent home but it meant nothing to me. I looked into it when we got the scores home and learned about AAP. And found this site. DS scored a 135 so rah. But we had learned about AAP and I had read this board and we wanted to have options so we did buy a workbook for the CogAT and went through one test in the book with DS. His scores on the CogAT? 135 composite. Higher in Quant (140 something), lower in Verbal (120 something). The third category was about the same as the composite.

Maybe we didn't prep right. Maybe the tests paint an accurate picture of his intelligence. In the end, we knew he was smart and that he loved math and seemed to understand math intuitively. He reads well, he is above grade level, but doesn't like to write. His iReadys have always been high (his latest one led him to asking us about Mean, Median, and range which appeared on his test).

Either way, he was accepted into AAP and we deferred for his language program. He has enjoyed the language but is starting to talk about moving schools because he wants to be more challenged in school. He has Advanced Math and Level III pull outs which he enjoys. But he is saying that he is bored in other areas. So we have a choice to make.