I am so impressed by your kids

[Anonymous]

^^^^ LOL if you are serious. LMAO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ LOL if you are serious. LMAO

op here. i am really honest and serious.

Mine got around 80% for both tests. She reads well, work hard, got compliments from all her teachers. But her scores are just average. So I always ask myself how can any other kid get that super score at 99%. I always thought it might be unreal until last night as I talk to one of my colleagues on the way home from work. She told me about her son in AAP 3rd grade and his two test scores are both 99%. Well now I really believe that those kids are real. I am very impressed.

Those kids must be smart but they also need to really focus on the test. Mine easily get distracted. I can not understand why others can not be impressed like me.

[Anonymous]

I'm not really that impressed with 99th percentile scores. Measuring giftedness at these ages is pretty crude and a decent number of kids who score highly now will not do so later. This article shows how unstable these test results really are:

http://faculty.education.uiowa.edu/docs/dlohman/gifted_today.pdf

I'm impressed with kids who consistently test high and have the achievement to back up the ability scores. My kid is there now, but I'm not assuming he will remain in the 99th percentile by middle or high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ LOL if you are serious. LMAO

op here. i am really honest and serious.

Mine got around 80% for both tests. She reads well, work hard, got compliments from all her teachers. But her scores are just average. So I always ask myself how can any other kid get that super score at 99%. I always thought it might be unreal until last night as I talk to one of my colleagues on the way home from work. She told me about her son in AAP 3rd grade and his two test scores are both 99%. Well now I really believe that those kids are real. I am very impressed.

Those kids must be smart but they also need to really focus on the test. Mine easily get distracted. I can not understand why others can not be impressed like me.

Don't undersell 80% and hard work...it can really really pay off in high school, college and work. 99% can be successful and amazing, but for most people who have a 99% child (who didn't do any prepping etc), it can come with other challenges as well. And while I am sure (since this is northern Virginia after all) there are some children who are 99% with no prep, amazing athletes on travel teams not on pay to play teams, very popular with their peers and an overall joy to be around, there are plenty who struggle. One of my DC is a 99% child with no prep. He is also very good at a lot of other things and what we have had to work with him on is his work ethic. He tends to give up if something doesn't come naturally to him because he is so used to most things being easy from the get go and while that worked out while he was younger, as he got older and other children started really putting in the time and dedication it caught up with him. There are also certain academic subjects that you HAVE to put in the time and learn good study habits if you want to study them in college, no matter what your IQ. You can't pull off a research project in one night.

It can be a very hard lesson, and if they don't learn it when they are younger, they get to high school or college and freak out (I have seen this with many a TJ child). They hit their first big failure and seem amazed. You then look at the 80% kid (of which I also have), who has spent their life working hard for the things they want, and they not stunned in the face of failure. They shrug their shoulders and figure out how to move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ LOL if you are serious. LMAO

op here. i am really honest and serious.

Mine got around 80% for both tests. She reads well, work hard, got compliments from all her teachers. But her scores are just average. So I always ask myself how can any other kid get that super score at 99%. I always thought it might be unreal until last night as I talk to one of my colleagues on the way home from work. She told me about her son in AAP 3rd grade and his two test scores are both 99%. Well now I really believe that those kids are real. I am very impressed.

Those kids must be smart but they also need to really focus on the test. Mine easily get distracted. I can not understand why others can not be impressed like me.

Don't undersell 80% and hard work...it can really really pay off in high school, college and work. 99% can be successful and amazing, but for most people who have a 99% child (who didn't do any prepping etc), it can come with other challenges as well. And while I am sure (since this is northern Virginia after all) there are some children who are 99% with no prep, amazing athletes on travel teams not on pay to play teams, very popular with their peers and an overall joy to be around, there are plenty who struggle. One of my DC is a 99% child with no prep. He is also very good at a lot of other things and what we have had to work with him on is his work ethic. He tends to give up if something doesn't come naturally to him because he is so used to most things being easy from the get go and while that worked out while he was younger, as he got older and other children started really putting in the time and dedication it caught up with him. There are also certain academic subjects that you HAVE to put in the time and learn good study habits if you want to study them in college, no matter what your IQ. You can't pull off a research project in one night.

It can be a very hard lesson, and if they don't learn it when they are younger, they get to high school or college and freak out (I have seen this with many a TJ child). They hit their first big failure and seem amazed. You then look at the 80% kid (of which I also have), who has spent their life working hard for the things they want, and they not stunned in the face of failure. They shrug their shoulders and figure out how to move on.

op here, thanks for what you said. I will remember this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^^ LOL if you are serious. LMAO

op here. i am really honest and serious.

Mine got around 80% for both tests. She reads well, work hard, got compliments from all her teachers. But her scores are just average. So I always ask myself how can any other kid get that super score at 99%. I always thought it might be unreal until last night as I talk to one of my colleagues on the way home from work. She told me about her son in AAP 3rd grade and his two test scores are both 99%. Well now I really believe that those kids are real. I am very impressed.

Those kids must be smart but they also need to really focus on the test. Mine easily get distracted. I can not understand why others can not be impressed like me.

Don't undersell 80% and hard work...it can really really pay off in high school, college and work. 99% can be successful and amazing, but for most people who have a 99% child (who didn't do any prepping etc), it can come with other challenges as well. And while I am sure (since this is northern Virginia after all) there are some children who are 99% with no prep, amazing athletes on travel teams not on pay to play teams, very popular with their peers and an overall joy to be around, there are plenty who struggle. One of my DC is a 99% child with no prep. He is also very good at a lot of other things and what we have had to work with him on is his work ethic. He tends to give up if something doesn't come naturally to him because he is so used to most things being easy from the get go and while that worked out while he was younger, as he got older and other children started really putting in the time and dedication it caught up with him. There are also certain academic subjects that you HAVE to put in the time and learn good study habits if you want to study them in college, no matter what your IQ. You can't pull off a research project in one night.

It can be a very hard lesson, and if they don't learn it when they are younger, they get to high school or college and freak out (I have seen this with many a TJ child). They hit their first big failure and seem amazed. You then look at the 80% kid (of which I also have), who has spent their life working hard for the things they want, and they not stunned in the face of failure. They shrug their shoulders and figure out how to move on.

Yes, this. I have a kid who just got 99th percentile on the CogAT but he is lazy as all get out. For the person who said non-AAP kids will start outperforming a lot of these kids in high school, I have no doubt that you are correct in the case of my child. I don't care. I just want my kid to be happy and well adjusted and I think AAP is the right place for him.

[Anonymous]

bingo

[Anonymous]

Being smart just isn't about test scores. We don't do it a lot but we do some workbooks, with test practice just so child will be comfortable with them. If your kids are that smart and comfortable taking tests, great but for others of us, our kids have to work at it and preparation is key given the schools don't provide much anymore. I don't want my child to go to the gifted programs right now but I'd like him to do well and feel success at school. The gifted programs are not close to our house which interferes with after school activiites.

[Anonymous]

Mine scored over 140 in both (no prep) and he's not a genius. He's just an amazing test taker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid's in 4th. He was 99 percentile. Zero prepping.

Zero prepping is so 2nd grade... you should really be negative prepping now. Then he can really show you what a genius he is.

[Anonymous]

What exactly is the so called preparation that people do anyway?

[Anonymous]

They get samples of the test

[Anonymous]

zero prep. CogAt 142 Composite. He needs the program. Done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who can't be impressed by other kids without feeling jealous are insecure. So many things kids and parents can excel at including just being a good person. Academics is just one area. With so many people making headlines for their poor behavior and lower intellect, I am not worried about how many hard working smart kids FCPS has even if they are smarter than my child. They aren't the ones sucking all the money up in the school system and they make our area attractive for families and businesses. Impressed by the kids. Not impressed by haters.

this whole website is based on insecure soccer moms and trolls of course lolz

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's what happens in this crazy area when you buy the tests and train the kids on taking it. Now it's the IAAT prep. I'm not impressed, I'm sickened. And yes my kid is in AAP.

OP here, I believe it is impossible to prepare for that level 99% unless the kids must be very smart. Even with preparation, getting that 99% score is still very impressive.

I have a kid in AAP who tested 99th percentile. We bought one book to familiarize him with the test. Maybe he would have scored 97th or 98th. Not sure. He got all 4s in AAP so he belongs there.

I have another kid we also bought the book for. He is getting less than half of the questions right. He gets a headache and gets confused. He is not going to be anywhere close to 90th percentile. He will be average.