Preparation for Teachers & Tutors
Are you a teacher or a tutor looking for practice resources for your students? Learn more about how Elm Academy can help!
Prepare for Gifted & Talented Tests
Realistic Tests
All of our courses include realistic, full-length practice tests to simulate a real test-taking experience.
Detailed Lessons
Topic-specific lessons and quizzes help your child learn key concepts that are likely to show up on the real test.
Structured Courses
Lessons, study schedules, and study guides simplify the preparation process and take out the guesswork for parents.
Instant Access
All of our courses are entirely online and can be accessed from any device in the comfort of your home.
Test-Specific
Don’t waste time with extra, unrelated materials. Our courses focus only on the test your child is about to take.
Helpful Explanations
Upon completing a test or quiz, you will be able to view the correct answers and explanations for each question.
Test Prep Courses
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Great experience! My son who is 10 y.o. and gifted in math, enjoyed practicing all tests (verbal, quantitative, and non verbal). He had fun going through the lessons and quizzes (especially the long quizzes at the end of each category) over one weekend prior to taking the real CogAT tests at his school the very next week. He was well prepared and very excited to take the real tests. He was the only one who actually finished the real CogAT nonverbal test (the hardest, in my opinion) in his testing group at school. I loved how the lessons were structured and easy to follow. I highly recommend this program. Being prepared makes a big difference even for highly gifted children as my son.
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As a tutor, I have used this course as a resource to prepare students. I would highly recommend, one of the best resources I’ve seen for this type of test. The curriculum is well-designed, clear strategies and a good amount of practice problems. I would recommend this to other tutors to supplement resources as well as to parents working with their children.
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This course was very helpful for my son. Lots of practice questions. I liked that there were quizzes for all the question styles.
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The best course out there for OLSAT. It has the correct amount of difficulty to challenge a child’s thought process and diverse questions to hone different reasoning skills. I had 8 days to prepare my child for GATE testing and this last minute prep was more than sufficient to get her to the finish line. I highly recommend it for all children irrespective of whether they are testing for a GATE program or not.
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My daughter did this two days before taking the test. She was much more comfortable in the testing environment, knowing what kinds of questions to expect and scored in the 97th percentile overall. I would recommend this product to other parents hoping to prepare their kids for the CogAT.
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This course was great preparation for my son, who ended up doing extremely well on his exam. I appreciate that he was able to understand what to expect before the test and I believe the practice helped build his confidence. We were able to identify potential trouble spots for him and work through them together at home in a low-stress environment. We liked the fact that we could access the lessons and quizzes at our leisure and that we could repeat sections as needed. My son enjoyed the course and was excited to receive his score after each quiz. According to him, he was very glad he was able to use this course and thought that the practice lessons and quizzes were very representative of the exam he was given at school. Thank you for providing this resource! Highly recommend!
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About Gifted & Talented Tests
Gifted and talented programs are designed to move at an accelerated pace, allowing gifted children to excel in school and reach their full potential. These programs are very competitive, so schools will use a variety of methods in their selection process. This may include some combination of interviews, meetings, and written tests.
Popular gifted and talented tests include the CogAT, CCAT, SCAT, OLSAT, NNAT, and Iowa Assessments, to name a few. Each of these tests offers something unique, but they serve the same purpose of measuring your child’s critical thinking abilities. These tests generally do not test material covered in the classroom, but rather assess more abstract abilities such as recognizing patterns, making connections, and following instructions. The unique structure and content of these tests makes preparing for them a crucial step toward getting into a gifted and talented program.
Preparing for Gifted & Talented Tests
Since there isn’t any real “material” covered on the test, preparing for gifted and talented tests is less about learning specific information than it is learning the test itself.
Each test has its own format with unique question types, so seeing what they look like, learning common concepts that show up frequently, and covering methods for solving them can give a child an advantage. Familiarizing your child with the test as much as possible, including taking a full-length practice test, is the best way to make sure they feel confident and ready on test day.
Research shows that young children sometimes do not fully understand what they are supposed to do on tests, especially when tasks are unfamiliar and test directions are brief.
– Riverside Insights, Publishers of the CogAT
About Elm Academy
Standardized testing is stressful. At Elm Academy, we’ve designed our online courses to minimize unnecessary stress and maximize your child’s performance. In addition to high quality, realistic practice materials, each course comes with a helpful parent guide that includes recommended study schedules and additional tips to make your preparation experience go as smoothly and stress-free as possible. Start preparing your child for their gifted and talented test today.
