NNAT question pattern
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Anonymous
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My kid is a raising first grader and will be taking NNAT exam this year. Parents who go their kids score from last year,
can you kindly let me know the number of questions and the sub sections? Also, please be kind enough to provide anything that is available in the result sheet. thanks in advance! |
Anonymous
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People are hesitant to answer questions like this because it seems as though you are trying to gather information to prep your child for the test, which is very much frowned upon.
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Anonymous
| I agree |
Anonymous
The result sheet looks like this: http://www.pearsonassessments.com/NR/rdonlyres/114B5CDF-52F4-4C79-9969-4AA2A7EC4118/0/NNAT2StudentReportSample0308.pdf |
Anonymous
| There are 48 questions on the NNAT2. If you want your child to work on problem solving questions that might help on the test, try thinktonight.com. |
Anonymous
| Preparing for this type of test really does not work. One of the mom's at our school had their daughter do "sample questions" every night before the test and she completed all these "workbooks" to help her on the NNAT. In the end the daughter did not score very well and was not in the center pool at all. |
Anonymous
| A stressed out 6 year old who has been prepped and told that they have to do good on this test or they won't be able to go to school with all the smart kids, is not going to do as well as a calm 6 year old who just thinks that they get to take a test where they get to find patterns. |
Anonymous
| I am a Tiger Mom. I had my son do workbooks a little bit the summer before he took the NNAT. He got extraordinary score (140) but he may have done that anyway, without practice, who knows? I know I did all I could do to help him do well, and if I hadn't and he bombed, I be blaming myself. Do what works for your family. Good luck. |
Anonymous
And yet my son got a 143 without wasting a minute of his childhood. The thing is...it is not an achievement test, it is an ability test. There is no "helping him do well." There is no information to memorize and no concepts to master. Either your child is wired in a way in which the patterns make sense, or he isn't. There is no "bombing" the NNAT or the CogAT. Again, it is an ABILITY test. A score in the low 100's would be how you would expect most kids to do. A score above or below average is not indicative of how much they know or how well they will do in life. And lastly, "blaming yourself"?? Seriously??? You would "blame yourself" if you hadn't wasted your child's summer prepping him for an ability test and he had scored merely "average" or even "superior"?? This goes beyond Tiger Mom. This sort of attitude is damaging to a child. |
Anonymous
| Like I say, you do what best for your family, lady. I do what's right for mine. You sound like total jerk who judges people and think always right, but first have to brag about own child. Lots of a-hole parent in Fairfax, and you one. |
Anonymous
I sure hope this is a joke, or troll. Why? Because you live in the USA. In America, nothing that happens when a child is 7 has to have a long term effect. This is the country of second chances, so if there is an issue the first time, you can get a do-over. Blow the NNAT and CogAT? Parental refer, possibly with the WISC....blow the SAT's? Take it again. Blow high school? Go to community college, do well, and transfer to a good school... |
Anonymous
Be as much of a Tiger Mom as you want. Falsely increasing a test score will not make your child gifted if he is not. |
Anonymous
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We didn't prep (frankly, I was naive and didn't even realize you could prep), but I will say that showing your child what the bubble sheet looks like and having the child do some sample problems to get the hang of it isn't cheating. If these are so-called "ability" tests and prepping doesn't help, why do people get so worked up when others prep?
Unless you get a bootleg copy of the test, it's not cheating. It's basically doing puzzles with your child to develop the skills they are testing for. Would the anti-preppers be upset if someone bought their child puzzle books? What's the big deal? You're helping your child feel more relaxed during the test because they've seen the same sort of problems (not the same problems) before. I know my child cried because she didn't know what an analogy was on the CogAt, so she didn't understand what they were asking for. She would likely have gotten a much higher score if she understood what they wanted. (and by the way, we didn't get her keyed up for the test. We said nothing about it. the school must have gotten her spun up over it.) Ultimately, it didn't matter because her scores were good, but "prepping" would have relieved some anxiety for her. |
Anonymous
| Agree with 15:40. And I think this is probably what Tiger Mom was trying to say when she said her child used workbooks "a bit" in the summer. Jeez, relax out there! Like 15:40 said, if you can't improve a score by practicing, why are you getting so worked up about this? |
Anonymous
| The problem is that you can prep for the test, and the prep renders the test inaccurate -- at least the CogAT. The issue is that upon prep, the tests are no longer measuring what they want to measure. Basically, test taking approaches are not a measure of creativity and intelligence. |