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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was in that situation this past year.  If you aren't going to pay for a tutoring class then at a minimum, pick up the Barron's HSPT book and do it cover to cover.  Each section of the test has its own peculiarities that the student needs to become familiar with, but the biggest issue is getting comfortable with the time allotted.  My kid struggled hard with this at first.  Too slow thinking through quantitative, not familiar with a lot of vocabulary.  Math wasn't bad (it's his strongest subject in school) but was proceeding too slow and would routinely fail to get to 7-10 questions before the time would run out.

We'd go through each section w/out a timer to get used to the types of questions.  We created a huge stack of vocab words on index cards and pop out a bunch at random times to reinforce them.  Then we tried each section again, at least twice with a timer.

Eventually, it all clicked.  Kid did shockingly well on the verbal, reading, and language.  Scored below-expected on math b/c he was so overly confident he rushed through the section.  In the end, scored in the low 80s which was good enough, but I suspect had he not did this with math, he'd have been in the 90s.   Doesn't matter.   Got into the schools he wanted.

You need to make time to do this.  It can't be done well in a couple of weeks if they have no familiarity with the format.[/quote]

This is incredibly helpful on how you prepped. I liked the use of index cards for vocabulary words as FCPS does not seem to do enough with language arts to sharped vocabulary and reading skills.

It’s good to hear your DC did well and what an amazing result they go too. [/quote]

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