I was thinking of taking a year or two off from additional testing and perhaps doing NUMATS again when DD is in seventh or eighth grade to take the ACT or SAT.
I wanted to get a sense of how other parents have their children participate in a talent searches. Do you have your child participate every year, periodically, or only once? What do you think are the benefits or drawbacks to yearly participation?
For a kid who hates tests, I wouldn't test any more unless you really need numbers for something.
We did EXPLORE once, in fourth, because we wanted to get a math level on DS (didn't work, he topped it out). Those numbers eventually proved useful for us in further advocacy about science placement.
DS now 11 adores taking tests and is not at all stressed by them. We will probably let him do the SAT at 13 (is that still standard in talent searches, as it was when I was 13?). But right now there's no need for more, nor would results do anything further for us, so we won't continue to test.
DeeDee
