TestingMom.com's 5Ps for Testing Success!

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- For those parents in NYC, many of their children will take the gifted and talented test this weekend or within the next few weeks. Tens of thousands of 4 to 7 year old New Yorkers will take the OLSAT test (Otis-Lennon School Abilities Test) that will determine their educational future for the next school year and beyond as they vie for a seat in the NYC gifted and talented program. For the all the New York City moms and dads, here are the 5 P's from Karen Quinn, the Testing Mom, to remember for the upcoming test.

• Process – Know the process of gifted and talented testing and how the OLSAT and Bracken (BSRA) tests work. After you enroll your talented tot on the NYC department of education website for gifted and talented test make sure you know the district-wide school choices based upon where you live. Also, investigate the NYC city-wide gifted and talented programs.
• Practice – Continually practice with your "Jake" or "Jane" to make sure they are fully immersed with the concepts on the Otis-Lennon School Abilities test by incorporating these into your daily routine. This can be done by counting city blocks as you stroll to Central Park or shapes by all the wonderful buildings and structures in New York City.
• Progress – Learning the concepts on the gifted and talented test takes time so make sure you monitor the progress of your child on a weekly basis. If your child struggles with analogies make sure you practice these until your child masters analogies for his or her level.
• Play – Make it fun! Learning through play is a great way to make sure your child is engaged with the process and absorbs the concepts like a little sponge! You can also make preparing for testing a game and even have your little one ask you questions along the way.
• Pray – Ok, if you're not really sure how your child will perform on the gifted and talented test or you've waited until the last minute to prepare (or didn't prepare at all), there's always the last resort of prayer.

You can get 50 free practice questions from TestingMom.com's extensive inventory of original test prep materials for concepts based upon commonly-used intelligence tests, including the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, the WPPSI-ERB test (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence), the Bracken School Readiness Assessment, the CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test),  NNAT (Naglieri Non-Verbal Ability Test), WISC-4, Raven's Progressive Matrices and KBIT-2.

About Testing Mom: Testing Mom, LLC is an online-based membership service for parents seeking prep materials and expert guidance on Gifted and Talented and private school admissions. The company was founded in 2010  by Karen Quinn, author of the New York Times Bestselling The Ivy Chronicles and Testing for Kindergarten and inventor of IQ Fun Park: Test Prep Disguised as a Game, and Michael McCurdy, one of the most popular "daddy bloggers" in New York City with his New York City Gifted and Talented Blog.

Media Contact: Michael McCurdy, TestingMom.com, 917-510-3115, [email protected]

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