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How do you prep a kid for the test? Isn't the test straight forward?[/quote]

Google NNAT and take a look at the first page or two of links. There are people who sell test prep packages and there are tutoring programs that people enroll their kids in that teach them how to answer the questions. So you can teach the pattern recognition to the kids. There are similar packages available for the CogAT that is taken in second grade.

The committee looks at the super high scores with suspicion because it can be prepped. There are teachers who will tell you that they hear kids saying that they knew the questions before hand, those would be kids who were repped usiing old tests and recognized the questions.

There is no doubt that a very small percentage of kids will score a perfect score without prepping but it is rare. [/quote]

You mention "teaching the pattern recognition", but isn't that just another thing/activity kids learn like numbers, letters, mazes, "spot the difference", connect the dots, and myriad other things.  My eldest child loves workbooks that have all these different types of activities in them.  So if some of the workbooks have pattern recognition as part of them then am I "prepping"?  Or only if I were to buy and give them test-specific prep materials?  I'm just getting up to speed on this topic (my eldest is Pre-K / 5yo) and sometimes unclear what people mean by prepping...[/quote]

I think the most obvious prepping is the weekend prep school types.  There are 6-8 week programs (few hours/week) in the areas to help kids score higher on NNAT and CogAT.

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There are the weekend programs and the books you can buy on Amazon.

We didn’t prep our son, we had no clue what it meant that he was taking the NNAT. We did have him work on a workbook over the summer that included math, reading, writing, pattern recognition and the like. He likes logic puzzles so we have books of those and a soduku for kids book that he likes. He plays board games with the adults. He reads 15 mintues a day and we read to him every night. He likes math games so we play math games.

I don’t see any of that as prepping, just parenting my specific kid. But it all probably helped him to do well on the NNAT. His love of origami will probably help him on the CogAT next year. (Shrugs)

Google NNAT and take a look at the sites that come up. They have specific books that contain practice questions and exams. [b]There are actual testing centers that people send their kids to. It is kind of scary. THe last month or so has been an eye opener for how insanely competitive some parents are regarding their kids. I udnerstand wanting the best for your child but I think that there are people who forget that they need to let their kids be kids. Anyone sending a five year old to tutoring for an exam probably needs to chill a bit. [/quote][/b]

Agree with all of this. I bought my house pre-kids and only looked at great school rating bc we hoped to  have kids eventually. I had no idea we were zoned for a center school (or what a center school even was at that point) and all the insanity that comes along with it. [/quote]

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