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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn't prepping always make you wonder...... is your child actually gifted? [/quote]

It makes me wonder why more people don't prep!  The workbooks are cheap and easy.  Why would you not do it??[/quote]

Because there are a lot of better things your third-grade child can do with the time than questionably-effective test prep to get into a two-year program.[/quote]

Absolutely positively DO PREPARE! Everybody prepares, and especially those who
will tell you not to prepare just so they can thin the herd.
First of all no test is perfect in judging giftedness. It tests certain abilities and above all ability to taking tests  :mrgreen:

Therefore if you won't teach a kid to take test as in: answering questions at a very fast pace
under time pressure and teaching them to pace themselves and time manage watching clock
then you are setting your kid for failure.

Just as those who stated above, check the tests that are going to be administered and find
online resources to let  your kid to practice.
Easy way is to just go to youtube and put the test name and grade level and you will
find plenty practice tests that will scare you but they will actually be manageable once
you and your kid get a hand of them.

Believe me, they are not as easy as walk in the park and even adults have to think a bit
to find an answer as they are pretty tricky. Once you will see the questions you will
know what I meant. You will understand why it is so important for your child
to practice them as much as possible.

The actual tests are nothing of a kind of learning that the kids do at school so
they are difficult for children regardless of the giftedness level.
Giftedness and Talents are not limited to test taking. Many kids who
are awesomely gifted do not do that great with some of those tests
just because Giftedness is so much more than those tests.

You can find also some cheap and good tests on testingmom website
for those specific tests. they are peanuts comparing to some nonesnsial
testing sites people mentioned here. This site charages like ten bucks or so
for three months and not hundreds of dollars and  is just as great.
Do you really need someone to do this work for you if you can
sit with your kid and analyze questions together so you can learn
the process and then a kid can take from there and prepare themselves.

Kids love those tests once they get a  hang of them as they are
like puzzles. That alone is indication of giftedness, curiosity for learning
and inquisitiveness and they will need loads of it if they get into Gifted
Center as if they don't have that they won't success everyday studies
that are very demanding.

Getting kids prepared for testing is not cheating. Those kids who get in
do not get in on tests alone but also based on teachers recommendations
and parents evaluations.

Gifted child is not the same a kid who just can study and study to
finally get material and good grade. That is not giftedness, that is hard work.
They do not look for this kind of kids, those kids do well in normal
schools being best students. Gifted Center is for exceptional minds
who learn fast, are curious, love to study beyond homework.
Those kids do not just do homework, they just can't stop to expand
the homework by research and explorations.

If a kid gets to a Gifted Center who does not have those abilities,
they just do not manage and drop out. So preparing for the test
at all cost will end right there and will hurt a kid so keep that in mind.
However even most brilliant kid will benefit from learning to do the test
itself as in preparing by doing few sample tests as provide on sample
websites and doing them in a timely manner there is no question about it.

About Catholic school - totally not a problem. 
Of course you can just call CGES and ask
for Gifted Education coordinator and ask but as far as I know,
the program is available for EVERYBODY, regardless of type of schooling
be it private, catholic or even homeschooling.

If you want to prepare kid to be successful at Gfited Program,
then do not only focus on the test but on teaching them and exposing
to all kinds of learning, and subjects, history, art, mathematics,
science. Have them research on their own, teach them to love
to read and write and expand their minds.

Kids at Gifted Center read few books per week not because
they have to but that too, but because they love to. The read
a book Harry Potter type in two sittings.. 
And writing, they write so much there so if you are preparing
a child to succeed there they must love to write few pages
in one sitting with passion. Otherwise it will be very difficult
on a child to succeed even if they pass the test with flying colors.

A child who will be pushed somehow into Gifted Center 
but won't love to read, write, create and research they will
be miserable plenty, stressed and very very lonely.
Kids who do not have imagination and creativity stand
no chance with their peers who area all like that.
Again, hard work is not enough. Creativity and self drive
is a key. That is what Gifted Programs are looking for.

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Wow, just wow! I post here a lot, but you really need to get a life![/quote]

Wow, just wow!  You are obnoxious.

I am not the PP but I found her post helpful.  You are the one who needs to 'get a life' if you feel the need to put other people down who are trying to be helpful.   :roll: [/quote]

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