We did the critical thinking series because DS liked workbooks and playing school. It wasn't prepping in my mind as it was not geared toward the tests. Plus, the logic puzzles were interesting to DS. However what was prepping in my mind was sitting down and working. But we knew people who prepped the experience, basically getting the kid comfortable with going to a tester and answering questions. Not all kids will do it. But what I did do overtly was do a version of princeton review for my 4.5 year old - I taught him to look at all the answers before making a choice and if there were two close answers to try to figure out the difference between the two. We did that for OLSAT and bracken (he was before the switch to NNAT in nyc) and we looked at the sample test the nyc doe provides. Some argue that the posting of the sample means that preparing is recommended and encouraged, as opposed to iq tests.

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