Workbooks and Free Resources

Time management is a key element to the college application process, and it is essential that you pay close attention to deadlines and due dates. This printable timeline will serve as an essential resource to ensure you are on track.

Letters of Recommendation are an essential piece of your college applications. They are a way for the adults in your life to vouch for how great you are, and they give the college admissions teams a second window into who you are as a student and as a person. Here are some tips when asking for your letters of recommendation.

The Common App is the most used application hub and it is where you will apply to the majority of your school list. The Common App essay is a way for you to showcase your identity to college admissions officers. Here is this years Common App personal essay prompts.

Our free sample AABL™ Individual Score Report (ISR) is meant to provide parents with insight into the results they can expect to see after their child has taken the AABL™. This sample AABL™ Individual Score Report (ISR) contains explanations of the terminology found therein and the figures included in the sample ISR are approximations. This ISR is meant to correlate with the 5.0-5.6 Age Band. Please visit our store to check out our more complete AABL™ & KRT Test Preparation Workbook.

The Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners™ (AABL™) will serve as the new evaluation tool that New York City private elementary programs will use during the admissions process. This practice test contains 3 sample questions (one Verbal and two Quantitative) while providing insight into what our more complete AABL™ & KRT Test Preparation Workbook offers.

In NYC, the ERB’s ECAA®(WISC-V®-based) is administered to students entering independent schools, grades 2-4. This practice test contains 2 sample questions while providing insight into what our more complete ECAA®/WISC-V® Workbook For Students Entering Grades 2-4 offers.

The InView™ is administered during many Gifted & Talented assessment tests. This practice test contains 2 questions while providing insight into what our more complete InView™ Test Preparation Workbook offers.

The Raven’s Progressive Matrices™ are administered during many Gifted & Talented assessment tests. This practice test contains 2 questions while providing insight into what our more complete Raven’s Progressive Matrices™ Test Preparation Workbook offers.

The CTP-4 (Comprehensive Testing Program) is a battery of tests that is administered by the Educational Record Bureau (ERB). This set of sample questions gives parents an idea of the skills covered on the CTP-4. This practice test contains 11 questions while providing insight into what our more complete CTP-4™ Verbal Reasoning & Vocabulary Workbook offers.

This set of sample questions gives parents an idea of the skills covered on the new subtests of the ERB/WPPSI-IV including Information and Bug Search.

This set of sample questions gives parents an idea of the skills covered on the NNAT-2. The sample questions here cover the four major question types of the NNAT-2, used for New York City's Gifted and Talented program, including NNAT Spatial Visualization, NNAT Serial Reasoning, NNAT Pattern Completion and NNAT Analogies. This practice test provides insight into what our more complete Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT-2) Workbooks offers.Please look here to check out our great free NNAT resources!

For free video tutorials of the NNAT question types, please click on the links below:

• NNAT Spatial Visualization
• NNAT Serial Reasoning
• NNAT Pattern Completion
• NNAT Analogies

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This set of 10 sample questions gives parents an idea of the skills covered on our interactive Enrichment and Learning Kit. The Enrichment & Learning Kit prepares students for a wide range of gifted and talented exams, including the Standford Binet, CoGAT, and NNAT-2.

This free OLSAT practice test covers all 10 of the subject areas on the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test and is designed for children aged 3-5. Parents can download this test to get a sense of what skills will be covered on the OLSAT. Children are administered the OLSAT in order to be admitted to gifted and talented programs throughout the country. This practice test provides insight into what our more complete OLSAT Workbooks offers.

This practice test contains 3 sample questions while providing insight into what our more complete SSAT™ Elementary Level Practice Test Book (5th Grade Candidates) offers.

Get an explanation of each section of the ERB Results Report with examples of phrases to look for based on more than 100 reports received by families throughout New York City. We reveal how admissions directors will read and interpret the results of the test.