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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Having your child retake the WPSIII strikes me as very odd for someone who went to the trouble to have child attend a private school given that avoiding public school emphasis on standardized testing is often one important reason people give for going private in the first place!!

I certainly understand being curious about how child would do a year or so later, but I agree with those posters who say there are far better ways to judge how your child is progressing. Feedback from your child's teachers, for example, would be a much better indicator of what your child's potential may be compared with other bright children and whether your child appears to be working up to that potential.

The WPPSI and other standardized tests given to young children are indeed a necessary evil of the private school entrance process ... I cannot imagine seeking to revisit such a yardstick voluntarily. I mean this respectfully when I say that you might want to very seriously reconsider your true inner motivations for wishing to analyze your child's "progress" ...[b] it really does seem unhealthy[/b]. [/quote]

Doctor,

Please tell me what's unhealthy about taking WPSSI over again, or any other examination or test?  I have probably taking well over 1000 examinations (standardized and non standardized) from elementary school through graduate school.  For some I even stayed up all night to study for with caffeine support.  At the end of the day, I'm not sure what was unhealthy about this.  I also played tons of sports, matches, competitions and finals and I would not say that was unhealthy either.  I don't know many 3 to 6 year olds spending their nights drinking coffee and studying for the WPSSI so I am unclear what ill health effects they would get because they took a WPSSI test several times?

Help me out, what's unique about the WPSSI as a standardised test/exercise or game that makes taking it more than once or 20 times unhealthy?  Children and young adults repeat many standardized and unstandardized mental, academic, intellectual tests, exercises or games.  What's unhealthy about this?    How do you measure or define this? Is this the same as watching our kids play the same video game over and over and over for hours and every day?  The latter activity may come with long term adverse effects on children.   Let me warn you there are private school parents with medical backgrounds reading this board.

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