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Hi Parents,
Hope for the best results for your kids. My kid is in 5th grade, and we live in 4tier so it will be a tough game for us. I want to help my kid prepare for the test, but I don’t know where to start. What is the test like? more like the exam for the classical program or gifted program? What kind of workbooks or material do I have to get to prepare for it?
Thank you!
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GoCPS has some information on the schools that offer academic centers.
I only consider Lane Tech since others like Whitney Young is just too far a drive. Academic center doesn’t offer bus (or a bus schedule that can actually work). So, you have to drive your kids to school every day for at least 2 years. It is no picnic I tell you.
Getting into Lane is slightly easier than getting into Whitney but all As in school is assumed and the entrance exam has to score fairly high. For Tier 4 in Lane, for example, last year, the min test score must be higher than 143 out of 150.
For test preparation, I suggest spending a few hundred dollars in a test prep center like selective test prep. They use almost the same materials every year with some updates. Their teachers are quite nice. The test prep classes are weekly that lasts 6 weeks I think. It gives a structure to children in test preparation. I wouldn’t have a clue on how to help my children do well in the test without classes like selective prep. There are other preps but I have no experience with them.
As to how accurate test prep materials are, I think it is mix bag. Certain things that emphasized in test prep are not tested at all but it does offer a broad ranged materials so that it doesn’t miss something.
Test is the gifted school test.
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