This Is Test Your 4-Year-Old Would Need To Pass To Get Into An Elite New York City Kindergarten

Business Insider ^ | 07/07/2014 | AMY ZIMMER, DNAINFO.COM

[SeekAndFind]

Test Yourself

Are you smart enough to get into private kindergarten? Take this test from Bright Kids NYC and find out how you fare on AABL practice questions.

Question 1 of 5

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Which flag completes the pattern?

MANHATTAN — Some of the city's most elite private schools will soon require 4-year-olds to take a new, harder admissions test given on an iPad and designed to assess math and literacy skills.

The educational services company ERB's Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners (AABL) will be given for the first time in October and is a significant departure from the previous, IQ-like test most New York City private schools required for the past 45 years.

While the new test is much cheaper for families — it's $65, rather than $568 for the old test, because the new test is taken by iPad rather than by a trained examiner — experts believe many parents will shell out even more on classes and books to prepare their toddlers for it.

"These are subjects that were not previously tested," said Emily Glickman, president of Abacus Guide Educational Consulting, who advises parents on private school admissions.

"The AABL is supposed to identify a child's ability and achievement," Glickman said. "That achievement part — how much you learned — is totally new. You usually think of an achievement test as something you take in high school. It's not something you think of for preschoolers."

So far, only Horace Mann and Riverdale Country School have announced plans to use the new exam, but experts believe more may follow.

[NorthMountain]

Does it go up to 11?

[Hoffer Rand]

5/5. Are you smarter than a 5 year old? Nice to know I am...

[knarf]

"therefore the Upper Left to Lower Right diagonal must contain one shape with all three shadings."

They don't ..

open, hourglass and halfshade, as opposed to three hoiurglasses.

[Tax-chick]

I got them all right. Now I’ll test Frank ;-).

[freerepublicchat]

I’d rather see how snobby, liberal, and arrogant the graduates turn out.

You'll see them running the country and shifting the culture further and further left, sort of like the way they've been doing it for the past 50+ years while watching powerless conservatives that bitterly dismiss intellectuals.

[Ezekiel]

does this mean I can’t go to kinnygahdin ?

These silly internet quizzes are probably NSA-sponsored anyway. All the problems were very straightforward except for number 2. Not terribly difficult, but not kindergarten material. Get that one right, get logged into a special "database".

You slipped out from under them, at least this time. :)

[Da Bilge Troll]

In kindergarten they stop at 9.

[litehaus]

Is that you...Jean Le Fleur????

[NorthMountain]

LL->UR is oval hourglass, square hourglass, circle hourglass.

So UL -> LR must be one shape with open, hourglass, right-half-shade. Since the center object is a square, UL and LR must also be squares.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. Don't wanna have to drool over Michelle ...

[Tax-chick]

Frank (who is 5) got two right, and I’m pretty sure he was guessing on one.

[knarf]

Thanx, Easy ....(I often refer to him as Easy Kile)

And the last book of the OT was written by an Italian ... The Malachi Papers.

[exDemMom]

The test reminds me of a lot of tests I took back in first grade.

Unfortunately, one of the answers was like the answers to the tests I took in first grade. The last question has an ambiguous answer, in that the pictures could be interpreted differently and still fit the actions described. It is like when I was a first grader, trying to answer which square does not fit, or is different, and I could see a reason for any of the answer squares to be the non-fitting or different square.

Although I have a high IQ, I don’t know if I would have been able to pass the test to enter those kindergartens. For one thing, I couldn’t talk at age 4. For another, when answers are ambiguous and one must guess, even a very intelligent child will get wrong answers.

[knarf]

and this is for kinnygahdin ?

Naahhh ... I wanna' stay home another year, Ma.

[moose07]

He’ll fly through it.

[freerepublicchat]

As snobby as you can imagine. I use to live in Queens and had a water delivery route in Manhattan which I like to call the “A-hole capital of the world” because it is which is why Obama constantly visits. The kids use to berate the door men for not opening the door fast enough for them. “Excuse me, but what is your job again?” Stuff like that and the kid would be like 11 years old. Little freakin’ d*ckweeds.

Ah. Sorry. You were talking about rich kids born into big money. I grew up around some of them. Insufferable.

[Tax-chick]

Frank is not a close observer of patterns.

[NorthMountain]

That'll get both you AND your ma waterboarded until you profess your undying love of our Dear and Most Pulchritudinous First Lady.

Common Core uber alles!!!!

[knarf]

not from THIS school board directer !

[Bulwyf]

Took me a good 15 seconds but I got it, but how dumb is that to make kindergarten kids do that heh.

[moose07]

Ah, that does help. :)