When we went for the preschool IQ screening, I told DD it was a princess test. And she has 2 more after the summer. (that is the SBV for Hunter and OLSAT for city schools) And so it is very important for her to pay attention and do her best like a princess.
DD is, of course, obsessed with princesses -- Disney and others -- and since princesses tend to go through some sort of "test", especially Mulan, she gets the fact it is serious enough for her to try.
I am stressing this last part for the fall since when she did the flip book part she didn't want to do the easy ones and gave wrong answers. Midway she stopped, self corrected and then started doing them. Luckily the tester had already gone through several other tests and wanted to see what she would do and recognized her as able to answer the simple ones. Highlighting it is good to have a tester who works with preschoolers a lot.
Good luck.
Ren
