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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Three pages along, and I see no one has admitted to buying WPPSI test prep materials and sample tests.

I did! Three years ago, I bought materials from a vendor in New York City who supplies to psychologists. The whole package was closer to $1100, not $800. No kidding.

Then I ran DS through the paces about a month before the test date. He did great, 99%.

Fast forward four years, he is now at the very top of his class in all subjects except art and P.E. in a DC private. So he probably would have done very well without my prepping, I'm guessing. But maybe not, and I didn't feel like leaving that component to chance.

Also, I don't regret in the least what I did. [/quote]

There is nothing to admit on this end since we didn't buy such materials.  Actually, I was spending 45 minutes/day with my children "prepping" them for life years well before the issue of attending private school came up and the necessity to take the idiotic and misguided mandatory WPPSI entrance admission test.  Longstanding and consistent face time with my children has created the much deeper academic and intellectual foundation that has made every admission entrance test or national exam a peaceful and breezy stroll in the park without any requirement for "Princeton review type" cramming for a month before any test.  Different styles for different folk.

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