If you are down with humbling yourself mightily, you can take a small sample of the test HERE.
Confession: I didn’t ace it.
No, I probably couldn’t have attended Horace Mann or Riverdale County School, the two schools which employ this test to see if you qualify for the privilege of attending their higher learning institute for kids who consider juice boxes to be the pinnacle of human invention. I was too busy playing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and shit.
The test, entitled ERB’s Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners (AABL), will test four-year olds’ aptitude in math and literacy. The AABL has the benefit of being much cheaper to take due to the fact that it can be taken on an iPad, rather than being administered by a trained examiner. It will debut at New York City private schools in October, as those places are shying away from IQ-tests.
“The AABL is really requiring more from preschoolers. That is in line with what we’re seeing in public schools,” Glickman said, referring to changes in the Department of Education’s gifted and talented admissions test. “We all know that some of the brightest people are late bloomers, yet more and more schools are rewarding the early achievers.”
