NYC Gifted and Talented Program and Testing

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I’ll be covering our adventure so far with NYC public schools gifted and talented program (GAT) with specific emphasis on District 2 within the New York City public school system. Our child is currently in the pre-K program at a NYC public school downtown.  We rec’d a notice from our child’s pre-K regarding an assessment (OLSAT and BRSA exams) our child would take in February 2009.  Of course, being the over zealous NYC parents we’ve become over the past few months since moving here we reviewed the OLSAT training material given by the DEO as quickly as possible.  OLSAT Testing day came around and our child came home and said “they said I did good”….we weren’t quite sure what to make out of that one. Did our she REALLY do well? Or did the test facilitator just tell our child that so they would feel good about herself Of course at that point it was 20 questions to our child…”how exactly did they say you did? what was the tone? was the test giver nice? did they smile?” We thought these were legitimate questions to throw upon a 4 year old; after all they seemed much easier for our child to come by then some of the questions on the OLSAT and BRSA. Continue reading →