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Hi everyone!
I’m looking for good workbooks or prep materials to help my child get ready for the Academic Center admission test.If your kids have gone through the process recently, could you please share which workbooks, practice tests, or online resources you found most useful?(I also heard that Test Prep Chicago offers.)
Any recommendations would be super appreciated!
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Academic center test tests for logic and space orientation. I would recommend OLSAT and/or CogAT test prep resources. We used Testingmom and Chicago Test prep.
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Thanks so much
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Came across https://www.selectivetestprep.com/ this week it’s been surprisingly solid so far if your looking for extra practice material
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Does anyone know how the scores on the practice tests for Test Prep Chicago line up with the actual AC score? My child has been getting in around 80% correct, which their platform states is around the 50%tile for the ~600 students taking their practice test this season. Would this mean my child is predicted to get a composite score of around 100 on the RGC/AC test? I’m surprised by the low %tile because my child had previously done well on these types of tests, though it’s been a few years.
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My experience with multiple kids was the ‘Test Prep Chicago’ tests were a little bit harder than the actual AC entry test.
Good news is that Test Prep Chicago will prep them for all the different test streams, but only a certain number of them are actually on the test (no one knows, hence it’s best to prep for all) so that relieves some stress for kids at testing
Also it sounds like they are saying your child is at 50% of THEIR data of testers. So that is just a small segment of the Chicago population (many times already involved/educated parents, motivated kids, people who have the financial and logistical means to take the course)
The last I knew the AC exam percentile was based on NATIONAL NORMS (someone please correct me if I’m wrong) It’s not even based on kids in chicago taking it in any specific timeframe.
Not-great news, unfortunately if you are tier 4 and applying to a north side AC, the scores are considerably tighter than getting 80% correct. Last year point total minimum for Lane/Whitney was 565, assuming all A’s gets you 300 points, leaving 265 for the test.
The itself gets weighted in that point total, but that means a score of 91% (ish) based on getting 146/160 available points on the test
There is more wiggle room in other ACs and tiers. So depends on where you are and where you want to go.
https://cdn.bfldr.com/MXCD21SV/as/mkmrqmsqm385h9k6wg8kc4kn/OAE_GoCPS_626408_SEESPointTotals_EN_V1
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Thanks. Not tier 4 and not applying to north side ACs, but I’m still confused about how you computed the relationship between percent correct and points on the test. My understanding is that the points are based on a scaled normed score with 100 as the median and there wouldn’t e an accurate way to compute that from the number of correct answers unless you knew what test it was and used their conversion tables.
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