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.
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Posted on 07/07/2014 1:06:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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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
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.
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but why one half shaded square versus the other?
3 basic shapes outer pattern shapes,9 patterns with one missing pattern....square, oval, and circle. Three inner patterns....empty space, 2 vertically opposed black triangles, and a light and dark bisecting pattern with the dark stripe occurring on the right side. One set of three outer shapes each were shown with three empty spaces. Another set of three outer shapes had the two verticALLY opposing dark tRIANGLE patterns. There were 9 total pictures{3 sets of three outer shapes) so the third set should have had an oval, a circle, and a square with the dark bisection oriented on the right. Only the circle and the oval with this pattern was shown; so from amongst the given potential answers, the square with the dark stripe on the right was your missing shape/pattern.
Pat is a close observer of patterns. Frank is a big picture kid. Most things related to the basic question, “Am I the most important person in your life?”
Glad to hear it. Common core is the educational equivalent of dog crap.
FWIW, I think the infamous Question #2 is a bit much for a 5 year old ... I had to stare at it for a while. Just for aesthetic reasons, I would have answered “Open Square”, but it’s not correct.
Speaking of 5 year olds, Dad showed me how to make a Mobius Strip when I was 5. Absolutely fascinating. Are you familiar with the “Klein Bottle”?
They'll go on to Ivy League schools and be the operatives in Malaria Obama's cabinet in 2045.
The dark stripe pattern on the right in the square was matched by the right dark stripe pattern found in the oval and circle. Therefore the square with the dark stripe in its right interior is the missing proper shape!
The key was the orientation patterns on the inside of the geometric shapes....you looked for what was missing...in this case a square with the dark stripe in the right side of its interior. (The oval and circle with the dark stripe in the right interior were already shown)
Here’s the flip side to that test. It’s secretly administered to the faculty to see if they have what it takes to quell a riot by the five year olds.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-many-five-year-olds-can-you-take-in-a-fight?s=mobile
“...Missing on third line, half-shaded square.”
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Yes, but WHICH of the two half-shaded squares is the correct one? The difference between IQ of 115 & 145.
49.
Next question: Can this test be used WORLDWIDE to gauge average IQ of youngsters?
I think it is sufficiently general (i.e., not culturally biased) to be a good indicator.
Should have been more clear on RIGHT half-shading.
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Square, oval, and circle on each line.
With no shading, cross-shading, and right half-shading.
Missing on third line ... right, half-shaded square.
I don’t think children “worldwide” would recognize pictures of an American grocery store conveyor and associate that with the text, which mentioned a cashier but not a conveyor.
5 of 5 but it took 8 or 9 minutes to see the patterns.
Are parents now supposed to be “teaching the test” to their 3 or 4 year old kids to prepare them for this test? Common Core and No Child Left Behind crap before they can even start school. Yet another revenue stream for schools and test makers.
Of course - or the nanny is. Only a few 4-year-old children would naturally work these things out if presented with them cold. The applicants will have been taught and drilled.
Yeah that was the trickiest one to figure out. There is not any kind of real progression in that one to follow, you just have to realize that each row must contain:
* One of each shape (Circle, oval, square)
* One of each pattern (No divisions, two divisions, four divisions)
Then it is easy to see that it has to be a square with two divisions to complete the last row. The answers had two such squares, but if you check the examples above, all the other shapes with two divisions had white on the left-hand side, so that is the correct one to pick.
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I can fill that bottle up and put a cork in it.
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