NY ELA and Math Exams

We are now offering preparation for the NY English Language Arts (ELA) and NY Math Exam for grades 3 through 5. The ELA and the Math Exam scores are used for entry in to Gifted and Talented Programs for 4th and 5th Grade. For entry considerations children in public schools must score a four on the ELA and meet the required cutoff for each test, which changes every year. Students who have the highest scores will be considered first, followed by the rest in descending order until the spots are filled.

The NYS ELA tests your child's ability to think creatively, make informed reasoned judgments, critiquing, analyzing, and inventing through language. The NYS ELA Standards include but not limited to: Information and Understanding, Literary Response and Expression, Critical Analysis and Evaluation, and The NY Math Exam is designed for Students to tests students understanding of mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.

This year New York City Department of Education changed the timeline of the ELA and Math administration. The NYS English Language Arts exam is usually given two weeks after the Christmas break in January. This year, The NYS English Language Arts exam for students in grades 3-8 will be administrated from Apr 26-28, 2010. The New York State Math exam is normally administered for grade 3-8 in March. However, this year The Board of Regents has directed The New York City Department of Education to administer the Math Exam from May 5-7, 2010.