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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

I didn't because I was naive about the test, but with hindsight, sure I would prep. My daughter is tri-lingual with English as the third language, so the test wasn't desgined for her in the first place. She is reserved and shy in unfamiliar environments - not the thype of 4-year old who is comfortable sitting an hour with an unfamiliar tester in a closed-door-room and do whatever the tester asks. She is also a perfectionist. Thus as soon as the was confronted with the first language question where she didn't know the answer - while being intelligent enough to understand that she was expected to know this - she shut down. The tester hardly got a word out of her.

The result was a score in the 60s. We talked to admissions folks who understood what had happened, send someone to observed her in her pre-school, and she got accepted by two good schools. Today she is a fine student.

What's wrong with 4-year-old-aptitude testing is that schools force parents and kids to go through this nonsense - but not that parents do what is needed to get kids through the nonsense with a result that gets them into good schools.  [/quote]

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