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My family is relocating to Chicago this summer with a 5 year old who is entering Kindergarten. Unfortunately, we didn’t know about our move until January, so we couldn’t do the fall SEES testing.
We just recently took the Spring test, but I have no idea what the next steps are. Presumably we will only be eligible for waitlist spots. Do I need to do anything on the CPS website to indicate where we would like to be considered? Will they email me with test results and where he’s waitlisted? The process is absolutely befuddling.
On an unrelated note, can we confirm the test is progressive and they stop after wrong answers? I see this rumor floating around online, but is this actually confirmed to be the case, or just speculation? Seems like no one actually knows anything about the test since they are so hush hush about it.
Just asking because of feedback about the test my kid gave me. For example, he was killing it doing practice COGAT/OLSAT/NNAT2 questions, but he said he never got logic or pattern or paper folding questions like we’ve been doing. He’s also great at addition and a bit of subtraction but said he wasn’t asked to do that either. Just wondering if he got knocked out on easier questions for whatever reason (we had a super hard time separating), or if the test just wasn’t what I expected.
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I don’t have any insights on what happens in the testing, especially at K. My daughter couldn’t tell me anything about it. For 1 there were word analogies – dog:puppy, cat:? but that was all she could tell me.
If you’re not already – get registered in the CPS system to see waitlists, your local school, etc…
This is where you’ll see test results and manage your waitlists. I believe you will need to add yourself to waitlists at SEES (where you’ll be ranked based on test score) and other schools – called Choice – (I think this is just getting in line and you’ll add to the end.)
The SEES lines will list a tier 1-4. This is a designation that applies to your neighborhood and the class spots are split among the tiers. So, if you are #1 in tier 4, you’d be offered a spot if there’s a tier 4 opening.
Some of the choice schools have different lines for things like proximity to the school or language if you’re looking at a dual language school.Use https://www.cps.edu/GoCPS to Find out what your local school is and take a tour. There are so many wonderful schools beyond the SEES. I toured a bunch of schools and think my kid would have done great at most of them. ALL of our friends in pre-K4/K/1 are happy at their schools.
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