Wow, changing my post completely after a closer look. Some of those questions seem (to me at least) to have more than one right answer or are too confusing to be answered.
Ex. page 6. "The woman" is the correct answer. But there's no mention of her in the problem. They assume that the kids will assume that a mommy (or granny) is in the house and she's doing something else while daddy puts the kids to bed. How PC. What if there is no mommy or granny? What if she went to Boston for a week?
Page 12. The backward F seems to be correct to me. They cut off part of the B and turned it backward on top. Why not do the same to the E?
Etc.
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Ahh, now I get it. These questions are from a
test prep site that promises to help your kid "ace the tests for gifted and talented programs."
Sorry, that seems, well, broken. I understand that people see these programs as prestigious or as helping their kids get ahead, but as a parent of actually gifted kids, I feel frustrated. Gifted programs have so little funding as it is, plus they get dumped on. Admitting kids who got prepped by "testing moms" and "testing dads" just makes things harder for the ones who could read and do math before they started kindergarten.
Programs for gifted students are supposed to be about appropriate learning environments, not about someone's ability to buy test prep books and presumed "right" to compete like crazy so their kids can scrape a few extra points and get in. Short term individual gain = loss to gifted kids and society.
Yeah, I know that some gifted kids don't show giftedness early on. But the solution isn't mass-marketed test prep materials. Yeah, I also know I'm too idealistic!
Rant off. Thanks for reading if you got this far.
