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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing that is aggravating to many I think is the vagueness of how to prepare.  You cannot do test prep for the walls test (although you can review your algebra if you are in geometry and, if you are not in geometry, learn some geometry for the test).  There is no guidance how how to prepare for the interview and it is judged in part by students.

The people posting here likely prepared for every high stakes test they ever took.  It is hard for us type As to let go.  It is hard for us to accept “get a good night’s sleep” and “just be yourself” as all we can have our kids do to prepare.  That combined with not understanding how the objective measures (the test) are combined with the subjective measures (interview and writing sample), makes us nuts.  And we cannot shut up about it.

I am going to go meditate now.  :-)[/quote]

It's kinda surprising to me to read the posts by parents whose kids rocked other tests and didn't pass the Walls test.  Our kid has some learning disabilities, and while he gets good grades he struggles with some standardized tests and does well on others (and sometimes performs vastly differently on the same test at different sittings).  We called Walls to ask about test results after he was invited to interview, and they told us he scored in the top 2% of kids who took the test.  We were kinda shocked.  I wonder what it's testing that's so different.[/quote]

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