Children!
I feel very sad today.Not that other days I am very happy.Yesterday I got the score card of COGAT test my both daughters took. The younger daughter did ok, still not in the 97 percentile.The older one did really bad ,especially in math.At grade 1 and grade 4 the tests will be so difficult ,I have no idea.When they took the tests, I thought they would pass with flying colors.I was so wrong. Most of it was my fault.I just made them take the test without making them prepare for it at all.They had no exposure to the kind of questions they were asked in the test.It was not the academic testing.It was more of critical thinking ,quantitative analysis and verbal analogy tests. They just got one day notice and next day they were taking tests.I should not have done it .I regret now ,because I am judging their ability based on some thing I have not prepared them for.And now being a human being I can not stop my self from thinking that how poorly they did in the test.That th...