Establishing the appropriate academic path for your young child can have huge implications regarding both the level of their academic performance and with their educational environment. The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) is used to help identify students who possess exceptional cognitive capabilities, subsequently granting them access to more advanced, engaging material through a talented and gifted (TAG) academic program. The WPPSI is specifically designed for young children ranging in age from two years and six months to seven years and three months. As such, the evaluation often constitutes the first experience these children have with a structured testing environment, sometimes resulting in anxiety and confusion during the assessment. If you are hoping for your child to qualify for the gifted educational programs at their grade level, it is important that he or she become familiar and comfortable with the testing environment and format well before the day of the evaluation. A private tutor can provide your child with just such exposure, helping them to become engaged with the problem types presented on the WPPSI.
Varsity Tutors can help you connect with WPPSI tutoring options that allow your child to approach the exam with confidence, rather than the trepidation inherent in facing a foreign testing environment. Private WPPSI tutors can accommodate your schedule and meet with your child in person for one-on-one tutoring sessions wherever and whenever is most convenient for your family. Tutors are also available for face-to-face online sessions. The WPPSI presents evaluators with a comprehensive IQ score, as well as subscores in four critical areas: Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, Processing Speed, and Global Language. WPPSI tutoring can help identify the areas in which your child seems to struggle, and can help to elucidate any confusing directives or unintuitive tasks that your child may face. By preemptively exposing your child to the rigors of the tasks and skills tested on the evaluation, you can get a better grasp of their capabilities and intuitions, and can work to develop any areas that may seem to be holding them back.
