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UPDATED: Everything you need to know about the AABL™

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The Educational Records Bureau (ERB) has announced the specifics regarding the Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners™ (AABL™), which will serve as the new evaluation tool that New York City private elementary programs will use during the admissions process. ISAAGNY removed the WPPSI-IV test that had been used for years in March of 2014 and the AABL™ will serve as the replacement assessment. Be sure to pick up our comprehensive AABL™ Test Preparation Workbook if your child is preparing to take the test and check out our Free AABL™ Practice Test and Free AABL™ Sample Score Report (ISR) here.

What is the AABL™?
The AABL™ is an iPad-based assessment that tests a child’s reasoning and achievement abilities. Children must be at least 4-years-old to take the test, which will take 30 to 40 minutes for Kindergarten and Grade 1 applicants and a bit longer for younger students. The AABL™ will be administered at the ERB’s NYC office at 470 Park Avenue South with the use of headphones. Children will be allowed to take a tutorial on how to use the iPad and answer the questions before beginning the actual assessment. A child will only be allowed to take the AABL™ once within a six-month span. Special accommodations will be made for students will be made for students with documented learning differences. Parents can register for the AABL™ and learn more about the test here. There is a $65 online registration fee.

Schools that will be using the AABL™ include Avenues, Collegiate, Horace Mann, Lycée Francais and Riverdale (and more schools could request this and/or accept results as an additional supplement). The AABL™ will be optional at Brooklyn Friends and Spence will accept all test scores including the AABL™.

Updated: Scoring
The final score of the AABL™ will be based on the child’s performance as well as other similarly aged children who have taken the assessment. Age bands are broken into 6-month intervals from the age of 4.0 to 6.11. Therefore, a child who is 5 years 0 months and 1 day old will be compared against a student who is 5 years 5 months and 30 days old according to the age bands. It is imperative that students are as old as possible when they are tested to ensure that they are judged against younger children. The score report that parents and schools receive will include the following for each section: a raw score, a scaled score, a percentile rank, a stanine and a breakdown of the questions answered correctly, incorrectly or skipped. Parents and schools will receive the score report within three to five business days. Be sure to download our AABL™ Individual Score Report (ISR) here.

Reasoning Section
The Reasoning portion of the AABL™ consists of Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning subsections. According to the ERB, the Verbal Reasoning subsection will test a child’s ability to “analyze relationships between two different ideas presented by pictures by identifying their shared characteristics, make comparisons and group various objects based on their common properties, and extract explicit information to infer and interpret situations.” The Quantitative Reasoning subsection will test a child’s ability to “recognize and apply addition, subtraction, and other numerical concepts, infer or deduce solutions to novel problems, compare and contract quantities, and identify shapes and patterns.” After the Reasoning Section, students will be given a short break before starting the Achievement Section.

Achievement Section
The Achievement portion of the AABL™ consists of Early Literacy and Mathematics subsections. According to the ERB, the Early Literacy subsection will test a child’s abilities in “rhyming, blending phonemes into words, recognizing phonemes in isolation, manipulating phonemes, letter-sound knowledge, decoding words, and word and sentence reading.” The Mathematics subsection will test a child’s abilities in “recognizing and naming numbers, counting and skip counting, determining ordinal position, adding and subtracting, identifying basic shapes, and recognizing common measurement tools.”

Aristotle Circle currently has tutors and materials to prepare children for the types of questions they will encounter on the AABL™. Please contact us for more information.


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