I worry b/c my ds said Cogat test was much harder than the practice tests he did in academic study camp this summer, but I think the extra workbook we went through together in September helped him achieve top score.

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I drank and smoked throughout my pregnancy and my kid made the cut at Kent Gardens.

Was your kid born in the 1960's? Because that's the only excuse I can think of for such horrid parenting. These are our CHILDREN and clearly if you didn't care about them enough in utero to care for them properly, I can hardly imagine you'd be the kind of parent to foster academic success in the long term.

Truth be told - and I'm not ashamed - but eating only organic foods and breast feeding my 2nd grade as the Swahilli tribe does put my son over the top. Yeah us!

Anonymous wrote:Is a 99th percentile a good or bad score?

Good

Is a 99th percentile a good or bad score?

I can't believe I drank and smoked throughout my pregnancy and my kid made the cut at Kent Gardens.

Received scores and in pool letter today from Louise Archer.

School name: Poplar Tree Elementary
In pool letter: Received in today's (Jan. 25) mail, sent from the school
CoGats received: No

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18:11- how on earth can you possibly predict that? You can't know from a single score on a test how they will perform on a subject
In a class.

+1

The kids with high aptitudes in math just get it. It doesn't matter if they haven't seen the problems before or been taught them in class. This test --despite efforts by parents here to game it -- was designed as a measure of aptitude not achievement.

And I don't have to predict it. My son's AAP teacher told me this is one of the problems she's found in the math classes -- you've got the kids the program was initially designed for who can get a concept quickly and move on to the next one and the others who have to study really hard and do a lot of repetitions to understand the problems. They slow the advanced classes down, which is why they should be in a more advanced class in Gen. Ed. as opposed to an AAP class for gifted learners. But the people on these threads never want to hear this, so I'm sure many will keep believing what they want as long as they can claim their kid is advanced. If you find your child needing extra help, kumon or a tutor to get those A's your so proud of though -- it means your kid was not who the AAP program was designed for.

They don't send letters if you are NOT in the pool.

I think it is the local scores they are using for determining cutoffs (132+).

Forgot to mention, we are at chesterbrook

Got the the score, but not the letter , a dummy question: how to read the score ? The age normed one counts? Or the local score counts?

Anonymous wrote:In Pool - yes
FxAT scores - yes

Both came home child's backpack today.

School name?

In Pool - yes
FxAT scores - yes

Both came home child's backpack today.