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OP here. I hope my DS gets into AAP but I don't think he is gifted. Maybe he will test well in 2nd grade. If he doesn't test into AAP, we may have to go the private school route.[/quote]

OK, this is going to sound racist, but if you want your kid in AAP you need to put him in test prep now.  Those CogAT score follow your kid for the rest of his/her elementary career at least.  Asian parents do this ALL THE TIME.  One of the main reasons AAP is so over represented by Asians is they prep the hell of their kids.  Same thing for the TJ testing and SAT.  Good prep is not going to turn your kid into Einstein, but comfort with the test format and approach is HUGE in doing well.  Good prep can easily bring your child up anywhere from 10 - 25% in the percentile rankings.

Google CogAT test prep - plenty of companies/individuals providing it.  And if you spend $1000 on prep to get your kid an AAP education versus Gen Ed - that's a home run.[/quote]

Ha.  That isn't a one and done thing.  If your kid needs that sort of prepping to get a high placement test score you can also expect to be giving them some mighty heavy duty help at home for the rest of their time in school.  It is stressful because the kid needs so much help from home to stay on top of their schoolwork.

It's not like you send your kid to take a 3 week Cogat prep test as a 1st grader and their path is then forever paved.  You can expect the time and expense to stay on that track to be enormous from there on out.[/quote]

OP here. I have no intentions of test prepping my child to get him into AAP. I may buy a book to familiarize my child with the questions so he knows the format. Our school recently mentioned computer testing. I think that would throw off DS. [/quote]

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