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[quote=Anonymous]Oh my god.  Will you people calm the fuck down?!?!  The NNAT is just ONE test, one 15-30 minute snapshot in your child's life.  Kudos to you who did not prep them for it.  (prepping invalidates the test, so if some ignoramous at the pool brags tags her son got a 130 because they practiced lots of sample puzzles, you can pull a Mona Lisa and smile to yourself knowing his real score would be more like a 108, and that's just fine.)

Look, I see more and more 1st graders in our school with significant test anxiety every year.  Last year, a student went into hysterics during the NNAT, actual sobbing freak out, because his best friend bragged to the class that he practiced with his mom all weekend and knew all the puzzles, and this poor little boy was afraid his parents would be mad at him that he had not studied.  You're not SUPPOSED to prep for it.  The kids should come in and just see it as fun puzzles.  Do your best, because this will help your teacher learn more about you, but it won't count for a grade.  Relax.

Some kids get really into it.  Some grow bored after the first 10 puzzles and just click through to the end quickly.  Some kids underperform because their parents have freaked the out.  Chill.  This will not make or break anything.

Your kid is just as gifted today as he was yesterday.  This doesn't matter.

Please do not prep for the CogAT.  It's not valid if you do.  You're setting your kid up to be an over-stressed basket case for no reason.  There is no preparation needed other than the one practice given at school for CogAT next year, to get familiar with the paper folding puzzles.  Please don't waste your kid's childhood on even an hour of prep for this.  [/quote]

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