Brain Academy, a comprehensive Tutoring, Testing and Coaching Center of New York, was founded by
Dr.Danov, PhD, a Harvard trained pediatric and adult neuropsychologist, who spent many years testing
and assessing very young children who are gifted, learning disabled, or both - gifted with superior IQ
along with some cognitive, emotional or behavioral weaknesses.
Gifted and talented children require a different educational placement to allow them develop and their
academic learning abilities while utilizing and enhancing their superior intellectual abilities.
GATE acronym stands for gifted and talented education. TAG acronym stands for talented and gifted.
G&T test term is also used to indicate an admissions test for gifted and talented children. Schools use
terms GATE and TAG to refer specific admissions tests administered to gifted and talented children in
order to determine if they qualify for the gifted and talented program. Some school districts have a
specific name for their gifted program (e.g., Magnet, Sigma, Eagle, Enrichment, Prism, etc).
The admissions test to GATE programs include OLSAT and BSRA, which are used together to
determine if a child scores in the gifted and talented range and, thus, qualifies for the GATE program.
Since the number of children who qualify for the gifted and talented educational placement (i.e., who
scored at 99th percentile on OLSAT and BSRA) in New York is rapidly growing, we are rapidly
expanding our locations to offer our high quality OLSAT and BSRA admissions test preparation to the
gifted and talented kids in NYC metro area.
Our superb educational specialists, headed by a highly experienced Harvard-trained
neuropsychologist, have helped many gifted and talented kids and their families prepare for this
vigorous and stressful OLSAT and BSRA admissions testing for NYC GATE gifted and talented
educational programs. We offer the smart way to get through this grueling process and to
ensure your child's top performance on OLSAT and BSRA. We don't stop here. We also support
your child during very demanding years in the gifted and talented program with an intense GATE
curriculum. We work hard with your gifted child to support his/her continuous academic success
beyond OLSAT and BSRA admissions testing.
Research shows that the brain of individuals with superior IQ works much more efficiently, as they
reason and learn faster, absorb and retain information more easily, and obtain better test scores on
typical academic tests. Thus, the gifted program admissions testing process (OLSAT and BSRA
testing) determines child's general intellect (i.e., reasoning, sequencing, logic, fund of knowledge, word
knowledge, information processing, and working memory). However, many confuse IQ test with OLSAT
and BSRA tests, which are different and separate testing instruments.
Gifted program admissions testing also focuses on academic achievement, such as reading,
vocabulary, reading comprehension, and arithmetic skills that children learn in the classroom. Many
schools also require high achievement test scores, as well as strong teacher assessment, to qualify for
the gifted and talented educational program.
Many school districts require children to obtain high admissions test scores on any test from this list of
standardized test to qualify for the gifted and talented educational program:
Bracken School Readiness Assessment (BSRA)
Otis-Lenon School Abilities Test (OLSAT)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Intelligence Scale (WPPSI-III) - IQ test
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (WISC-IV) - IQ test
Stanford-Binet-5th Edition (SB5) - IQ test
Naglieri Non-Verbal Ability Test (NNAT)
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)
In New York, OLSAT and BSRA are required for admissions to the city and private gifted and talented
programs. The Hunter College Elementary School requires a different IQ test for the admissions
consideration - the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5). Most other schools require
other IQ tests (WPPSI, WISC). All these IQ tests (WPPSI, WISC, SB5) are standardized tests of
intelligence for very young and older children and are routinely used by neuropsychologists as a part
of a comprehensive neuropsychological testing and assessment.
Even gifted and talented children need some help to get through this highly competitive process to
secure a spot at a coveted GATE program. It is never too early to start preparing for the TAG
(talented and gifted) and GATE (gifted and talented education) admissions tests such as IQ, OLSAT,
and BSRA. For starters, we provide IQ testing, cognitive testing, and academic achievement testing to
kids of all ages. As neuropsychologists, specifically trained and experienced in the assessment and
testing of very young clients, we administer IQ tests, such as WPPSI and SB5, to kids as young as 2
years of age!
You can obtain IQ test scores and/or academic test scores for your gifted and talented youngster now,
way before the actual admissions IQ (WPPSI, WISC, SB5), OLSAT, ERB, or BSRA test. You can
determine whether your child scores in the high average, superior, or very superior range of the IQ
continuum. Allow your youngster become familiar with the IQ, OLSAT and BSRA testing experience
and ease test anxiety. It does not matter how old is your child now, as IQ test scores are always
compared to the current age norms. We will not administer IQ test right before your actual sitting for
the IQ test at the ERB (register with the ERB to receive a formal administration of OLSAT, BSRA, IQ,
WPPSI, WISC at a scheduled by the ERB time).
Your next step after IQ test is a private tutoring and coaching. Brain Academy, a tutoring, testing and
coaching center of New York offers exactly what you need - a comprehensive, thorough and result-
driven preparation for any of the aforementioned standardized tests (OLSAT, IQ, WPPSI, WISC, BSRA,
ERB). Brain Academy test preparation and tutoring focus on all critical areas of cognitive functioning
and academic achievement, including:
• Verbal Reasoning & Non-Verbal Reasoning
• Logic & Arithmetic
• Reading & Word Knowledge
Brain Academy will not administer the actual OLSAT or BSRA - these tests will be formally administered
at the ERB center. However, you can prepare your son or daughter to display their full intellectual and
learning potential in the gifted range by increasing familiarity with the overall testing process,
decreasing test anxiety, and improving attention, focus and compliance with questions-answer format,
and ability to sit for prolonged period of time. NYC Department of Education offers OLSAT and BSRA
preparation manual to help parents prepare for the admissions application process and prepare their
youngsters for OLSAT and BSRA. A few sample questions from the actual OLSAT and BSRA are
offered by the Department of Education (download free GATE TAG instructions, application and
OLSAT sample questions for children born in 2006).
Some gifted and talented students may have some cognitive or academic skills that are slightly weaker
than the rest of their cognitive and academic skills. Only an experienced neuropsychologist can detect
such cognitive weaknesses and formally diagnose a gifted child with a learning disability. Some gifted
and talented students truly suffer when they struggle with a specific learning disability, while showing
off superior abilities in many other areas of cognitive functioning ("twice exceptional" students).
If such weaknesses are detected, the our top tutors can prepare your son or daughter for the ongoing
tests and assignments and help "pull up" these weaknesses while reinforcing the strong skills. This
approach is based on neuro-science of the brain functioning and is proven to maximize your
child's potential. Thus, it is always beneficial to start preparing for GATE (gifted and talented
education) and TAG (talented and gifted) admissions tests (OLSAT, ERB, IQ, BSRA, WISC, WPPSI)
early enough so that your son or daughter has time to develop and strengthen his reasoning,
attention, memory, and overall academic and cognitive skills. Young kids cannot cram the mastery of
advanced cognitive skills in a few days.
Brain Academy sessions also allow your young ones to familiarize with the admissions testing process
(formal administration of standardized tests such as OLSAT, ERB, IQ, BSRA, WISC, WPPSI by adults,
strangers, in unfamiliar office conditions), which helps decrease test anxiety and boost admissions test
scores. This is the smart way to ensure your child's current OLSAT and BSRA test
performance and future academic success.
Dr.Danov, PhD, a Harvard trained pediatric and adult neuropsychologist, who spent many years testing
and assessing very young children who are gifted, learning disabled, or both - gifted with superior IQ
along with some cognitive, emotional or behavioral weaknesses.
Gifted and talented children require a different educational placement to allow them develop and their
academic learning abilities while utilizing and enhancing their superior intellectual abilities.
GATE acronym stands for gifted and talented education. TAG acronym stands for talented and gifted.
G&T test term is also used to indicate an admissions test for gifted and talented children. Schools use
terms GATE and TAG to refer specific admissions tests administered to gifted and talented children in
order to determine if they qualify for the gifted and talented program. Some school districts have a
specific name for their gifted program (e.g., Magnet, Sigma, Eagle, Enrichment, Prism, etc).
The admissions test to GATE programs include OLSAT and BSRA, which are used together to
determine if a child scores in the gifted and talented range and, thus, qualifies for the GATE program.
Since the number of children who qualify for the gifted and talented educational placement (i.e., who
scored at 99th percentile on OLSAT and BSRA) in New York is rapidly growing, we are rapidly
expanding our locations to offer our high quality OLSAT and BSRA admissions test preparation to the
gifted and talented kids in NYC metro area.
Our superb educational specialists, headed by a highly experienced Harvard-trained
neuropsychologist, have helped many gifted and talented kids and their families prepare for this
vigorous and stressful OLSAT and BSRA admissions testing for NYC GATE gifted and talented
educational programs. We offer the smart way to get through this grueling process and to
ensure your child's top performance on OLSAT and BSRA. We don't stop here. We also support
your child during very demanding years in the gifted and talented program with an intense GATE
curriculum. We work hard with your gifted child to support his/her continuous academic success
beyond OLSAT and BSRA admissions testing.
Research shows that the brain of individuals with superior IQ works much more efficiently, as they
reason and learn faster, absorb and retain information more easily, and obtain better test scores on
typical academic tests. Thus, the gifted program admissions testing process (OLSAT and BSRA
testing) determines child's general intellect (i.e., reasoning, sequencing, logic, fund of knowledge, word
knowledge, information processing, and working memory). However, many confuse IQ test with OLSAT
and BSRA tests, which are different and separate testing instruments.
Gifted program admissions testing also focuses on academic achievement, such as reading,
vocabulary, reading comprehension, and arithmetic skills that children learn in the classroom. Many
schools also require high achievement test scores, as well as strong teacher assessment, to qualify for
the gifted and talented educational program.
Many school districts require children to obtain high admissions test scores on any test from this list of
standardized test to qualify for the gifted and talented educational program:
Bracken School Readiness Assessment (BSRA)
Otis-Lenon School Abilities Test (OLSAT)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Intelligence Scale (WPPSI-III) - IQ test
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (WISC-IV) - IQ test
Stanford-Binet-5th Edition (SB5) - IQ test
Naglieri Non-Verbal Ability Test (NNAT)
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)
In New York, OLSAT and BSRA are required for admissions to the city and private gifted and talented
programs. The Hunter College Elementary School requires a different IQ test for the admissions
consideration - the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5). Most other schools require
other IQ tests (WPPSI, WISC). All these IQ tests (WPPSI, WISC, SB5) are standardized tests of
intelligence for very young and older children and are routinely used by neuropsychologists as a part
of a comprehensive neuropsychological testing and assessment.
Even gifted and talented children need some help to get through this highly competitive process to
secure a spot at a coveted GATE program. It is never too early to start preparing for the TAG
(talented and gifted) and GATE (gifted and talented education) admissions tests such as IQ, OLSAT,
and BSRA. For starters, we provide IQ testing, cognitive testing, and academic achievement testing to
kids of all ages. As neuropsychologists, specifically trained and experienced in the assessment and
testing of very young clients, we administer IQ tests, such as WPPSI and SB5, to kids as young as 2
years of age!
You can obtain IQ test scores and/or academic test scores for your gifted and talented youngster now,
way before the actual admissions IQ (WPPSI, WISC, SB5), OLSAT, ERB, or BSRA test. You can
determine whether your child scores in the high average, superior, or very superior range of the IQ
continuum. Allow your youngster become familiar with the IQ, OLSAT and BSRA testing experience
and ease test anxiety. It does not matter how old is your child now, as IQ test scores are always
compared to the current age norms. We will not administer IQ test right before your actual sitting for
the IQ test at the ERB (register with the ERB to receive a formal administration of OLSAT, BSRA, IQ,
WPPSI, WISC at a scheduled by the ERB time).
Your next step after IQ test is a private tutoring and coaching. Brain Academy, a tutoring, testing and
coaching center of New York offers exactly what you need - a comprehensive, thorough and result-
driven preparation for any of the aforementioned standardized tests (OLSAT, IQ, WPPSI, WISC, BSRA,
ERB). Brain Academy test preparation and tutoring focus on all critical areas of cognitive functioning
and academic achievement, including:
• Verbal Reasoning & Non-Verbal Reasoning
• Logic & Arithmetic
• Reading & Word Knowledge
Brain Academy will not administer the actual OLSAT or BSRA - these tests will be formally administered
at the ERB center. However, you can prepare your son or daughter to display their full intellectual and
learning potential in the gifted range by increasing familiarity with the overall testing process,
decreasing test anxiety, and improving attention, focus and compliance with questions-answer format,
and ability to sit for prolonged period of time. NYC Department of Education offers OLSAT and BSRA
preparation manual to help parents prepare for the admissions application process and prepare their
youngsters for OLSAT and BSRA. A few sample questions from the actual OLSAT and BSRA are
offered by the Department of Education (download free GATE TAG instructions, application and
OLSAT sample questions for children born in 2006).
Some gifted and talented students may have some cognitive or academic skills that are slightly weaker
than the rest of their cognitive and academic skills. Only an experienced neuropsychologist can detect
such cognitive weaknesses and formally diagnose a gifted child with a learning disability. Some gifted
and talented students truly suffer when they struggle with a specific learning disability, while showing
off superior abilities in many other areas of cognitive functioning ("twice exceptional" students).
If such weaknesses are detected, the our top tutors can prepare your son or daughter for the ongoing
tests and assignments and help "pull up" these weaknesses while reinforcing the strong skills. This
approach is based on neuro-science of the brain functioning and is proven to maximize your
child's potential. Thus, it is always beneficial to start preparing for GATE (gifted and talented
education) and TAG (talented and gifted) admissions tests (OLSAT, ERB, IQ, BSRA, WISC, WPPSI)
early enough so that your son or daughter has time to develop and strengthen his reasoning,
attention, memory, and overall academic and cognitive skills. Young kids cannot cram the mastery of
advanced cognitive skills in a few days.
Brain Academy sessions also allow your young ones to familiarize with the admissions testing process
(formal administration of standardized tests such as OLSAT, ERB, IQ, BSRA, WISC, WPPSI by adults,
strangers, in unfamiliar office conditions), which helps decrease test anxiety and boost admissions test
scores. This is the smart way to ensure your child's current OLSAT and BSRA test
performance and future academic success.
| BRAIN ACADEMY TUTORING, TESTING & COACHING CENTER OF NEW YORK EFFORT + BRAIN ACADEMY = SUCCESS 877-55-MY TUTOR (877-556-9888) |
| OLSAT, BSRA, IQ, WISC, WPPSI, ERB - GIFTED & TALENTED TUTORING & COACHING |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| BRAIN ACADEMY- WHERE TUTORS FROM IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS HELP YOU SUCCEED |
| Congratulations to children who scored high on OLSAT & BSRA in 2011! *** May 2011 OLSAT & BSRA 2011 results just came back- we are proud to announce that all of our bright kids scored above 90th percentile and many scored at 99th percentile! Hard work and determination paid off- they are starting G&T programs this Fall! ***** OLSAT & BSRA test prep at the Brain Academy helps more and more children to achieve higher educational goals. ***** G&T Offer Letters and email will be sent out by June 17, 2011 to all families who applied to the elementary school GATE programs. Children who were accepted to these schools must pre- register June 20-24, 2011. Please call the school to which you received an offer in order to arrange a time for pre-registration. ***** July 2010 10% more children qualified for gifted kindergarten programs in NYC public schools. 33% more passed OLSAT. NYC GATE statistics ***** For additional information about elementary school GATE, visit NYC DOE http://schools.nyc.gov/ Academics/ GiftedandTalented If you have questions about the admissions, please call 718-935-2009 or e-mail ES_Enrollment@schools.nyc. gov |
Standards for Gifted & Talented
Education Programs Pre-K-12:
Comprehensive assessment is
important to describe child's strengths
and weaknesses and unique learning
characteristics. This is especially
important for underachieving gifted and
talented children.
Education Programs Pre-K-12:
Comprehensive assessment is
important to describe child's strengths
and weaknesses and unique learning
characteristics. This is especially
important for underachieving gifted and
talented children.
| download free GATE TAG instructions, application and OLSAT sample questions for children born in 2005; download free GATE TAG instructions, application and OLSAT sample questions for children born in 2004; download free GATE TAG instructions, application and OLSAT sample questions for children born in 2003 |
Read more about Hunter
College Elementary School
admissions testing process.
Download admissions
application.
College Elementary School
admissions testing process.
Download admissions
application.
“These parents are taking an
educated approach to the
private school and the gifted
program admissions process.
They want to find out in which
areas their kids do not do better
than the majority of peers and
then practice those skills to
improve them... What are the
helpful tips for preparing your
child to score at her best on the
admissions exams?" Read
more here.
educated approach to the
private school and the gifted
program admissions process.
They want to find out in which
areas their kids do not do better
than the majority of peers and
then practice those skills to
improve them... What are the
helpful tips for preparing your
child to score at her best on the
admissions exams?" Read
more here.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR KINDERGARTEN
ADMISSIONS for 2011-2012 year:
Jan 10-Mar 4: Submit application
Mar 21-Mar 25: Offers are made
Mar 28-Apr 15: Pre-registration at schools
To be eligible for 2011‐2012 kindergarten
admissions, your child must turn 5 by
December 31, 2011 and be a resident of
New York City.
(for more info visit Kindergarten
Admissions page)
ADMISSIONS for 2011-2012 year:
Jan 10-Mar 4: Submit application
Mar 21-Mar 25: Offers are made
Mar 28-Apr 15: Pre-registration at schools
To be eligible for 2011‐2012 kindergarten
admissions, your child must turn 5 by
December 31, 2011 and be a resident of
New York City.
(for more info visit Kindergarten
Admissions page)
| Wish to receive cutting age info on topics involving education, brain fitness and learning? Send us an email with "Subscribe" in the subject line here: Intake@55MyTutor.com (Strictly Confidential List!) |
