NEW YORK — The results are in, and thousands of children have qualified in the city's elite gifted and talented programs — but fewer kids netted a top score this year, Department of Education figures show.
Families began finding out over the weekend how their 4-year-olds performed on the new, harder standardized gifted tests, after months of preparation and anxiety.
Fewer preschoolers achieved a top 99th percentile score on the test this year — nearly 7 percent of 4-year-olds got the highest possible score this year, compared to about 11 percent of preschoolers in 2012, according to the Department of Education.
"We're not surprised there was a much lower percentage of 99s this year," said Michael McCurdy, co-founder of TestingMom.com, a test preparation website.