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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

Posted on 07/07/2014 1:06:12 PM PDT by 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



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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dnainfo.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: kindergarten; kindergartentest; nyc; preschool; preschooltest; test
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1 posted on 07/07/2014 1:06:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t know what’s up with those flags and I’m about the smartest feller on the planet.


2 posted on 07/07/2014 1:11:25 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SeekAndFind

Good thing the authors weren’t required to take grammar to pass the “headline test”.


3 posted on 07/07/2014 1:12:10 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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


4 posted on 07/07/2014 1:13:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SeekAndFind

4 out of 5


5 posted on 07/07/2014 1:15:17 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

5/5
Do I get a cookie?


6 posted on 07/07/2014 1:15:31 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: SeekAndFind
What if my child is allergic to test?

Test are only used to stereotype my child.

My child prefers an informal classroom where creativity is encourage, not test.

7 posted on 07/07/2014 1:15:38 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SeekAndFind
Send them a few bus loads of immigrants
8 posted on 07/07/2014 1:17:24 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (#DELETE *.* GOV)
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To: SeekAndFind; humblegunner

If humblegunner is having a problem with it, I ain’t even trying.


9 posted on 07/07/2014 1:17:26 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Obama - The Scandal a Week President.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How does that test measure math or literacy at all?


10 posted on 07/07/2014 1:17:38 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: servo1969
5/5 Do I get a cookie?

I think you need a nap.

11 posted on 07/07/2014 1:17:48 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The correct answer is don’t waste your time.
If you take it you are admitting that you are allowing someone else to arbitrarily pass judgement on your intelligence and experience.
Contrived by pinheads.
Over educated and under informed.

Guess I’m just not a team player.

No biscuit for me.


12 posted on 07/07/2014 1:18:52 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: TexasCajun

creativity is normal for kids, it doesn’t need to be taught


13 posted on 07/07/2014 1:19:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: knarf

Perhaps your tagline explains why you would post “achieving” an 80% on a test for 4 year olds?


14 posted on 07/07/2014 1:22:54 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: SeekAndFind

5/5
At 5 years old, not so easy.


15 posted on 07/07/2014 1:22:59 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: servo1969

I want to know the logic for selecting the ‘correct’ answer for #2


16 posted on 07/07/2014 1:24:16 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: servo1969

Four out of five, but only because I firmly disagree with the correct answer in the last question. Whoever made the key skipped a step in matching the pictures to the text.


17 posted on 07/07/2014 1:24:59 PM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: G Larry
perhaps ... perhaps not.

Did you take the test ?

What's the answer to #2 ... and why ?

18 posted on 07/07/2014 1:25:35 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Does this have anything to do with Common Core?


19 posted on 07/07/2014 1:25:58 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SeekAndFind
This reminds me of the scene in "Wall Street" (1987) in which Gordon Gekko enthuses about how his three-year-old son, Rudy, "already speaks French" and "got the highest score on his IQ test!"


20 posted on 07/07/2014 1:30:54 PM PDT by pogo101
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