Prepare your kids for Nursery Admission Test

I am writing this blog to share the experience that I gathered in 1.5 yrs timeframe while getting my son's admission a repute school.Hope it will help the kids prepare for their nursery admissions.

All the best kids!!!! and most importantly all the best parents....as you are going to face tough competition :)

First make the child familiar with colors, animals, birds, fruits, vegetables, flowers. Once they are comfortable with these then starts with the questions and answers.

If your child shares his/her birthday with a famous personality then get your children know about it. For example, my son’s birthday is on 2^nd October. He was asked during interaction by one of the reputed schools in Kolkata “You have your birthday on a very special day. Do you know who else was born on 2^nd October?”

I have divided the questions sets. Once the child is done with 1^st set completely then proceeds for the next set and so on.

These are very basic questions that can be asked during interaction:

SET I:

1.    What is your name?

Ans: My name is Mr._____________

2.    What is your father’s name?

Ans: My father’s name is Mr.______________

3.    What is your mother’s name?

Ans: My mother’s name is Mrs_______________

May point to father and they may ask

4.    Who is he?

Ans: He is my father.

5.    What is his name?

Ans: His name is Mr.________________

      May point to mother and they may ask

6.    Who is she?

Ans: She is my mother.

7.    What is her name?

Ans: My mother name is Mrs.____________

Sometimes very casually they ask pointing to father or mother who is this?

8.    How old are you?

Ans: I am ____ years old

9.    Are you a boy or a girl?

Ans: I am a ______

10. When is your birthday?

Ans: My birthday is on __________

11. When were you born?

Ans: I am born on _____________

12. In which year you were born?

Ans: I am born in the year ______

13. Say from A to Z

14. What is your school name?

Ans: School Name is ___________

15. In which class do you read?

Ans: I read in ___________

16. Do you like to go to school?

Ans: Yes, I go to school

17. Why do you go to school?

Ans: I go to school to study and play

18. What is the name of your class teacher?           

Ans: My class teacher name is _____________

19. Who teach you at school?

Ans: My teacher teach me at school

20. When do you come to school?

Ans: I come to school in the morning

21. How do you come to school?

Ans: I go to school in __________

22. Who takes you to school or with whom do you go to school?

Ans: __________ take me to school

23. Who teach you at home?

Ans: My mother teaches me at home.

24. When do you study?

Ans: I study in the _______________

25. With whom do you stay when you parents/mother is not at home?

Ans: I stay with my _____________

26. Where do you live?

Ans: I live in _____________

27. Do you have your breakfast?

Ans: Yes, I had my breakfast in the morning

28. When do you have your breakfast?

Ans: I have my breakfast in the morning

29. What do you have for your breakfast?

Ans: I have __________________ for my breakfast

30. Do you have your lunch?

Ans: Yes, I had my lunch

31. When do you have your lunch?

Ans: I have my lunch in the afternoon

32. What do you have for lunch?

Ans: I have ____________ for my lunch

33. What is your favorite color?

Ans: My favorite color is __________

34. What do you like most to eat?

Ans: I like ______________ most to eat

35.  What is your favorite fruit?

Ans: My favorite fruit is __________

36. Do you play games?

Ans: Yes, I play games

37. What is your favorite game?

      Ans: My favorite game is ___________

38. What you like to play most?

Ans: I like _____________ most to play

SET II

1.    Name five Wild Animals

2.    Name five Domestic Animals.

3.    Name five Birds.

4.    Name five flowers.

5.    Name five vegetables.

6.    Name five transport

7.    Sometimes the school prefers to show the pictures of Wild animals or Domestic animals or Birds or Flowers or Vegetables and ask the child to identify them.

8.    How many eyes do you have?

9.    How many ears do you have?

10. How many noses do you have?

11. How many fingers do you have?

12. How many toes do you have?

13. How many hands do you have?

14. How many legs do you have?

15. What do you do with your head?

16. What do you do with your eyes?

17. What do you do with your tongue?

18. What do you do with your ears?

19. What do you do with your nose?

20. What do you do with your hands?

21. What do you do with your legs?

22. Can you count your fingers?

23. Count your fingers.

In general child should know the body parts. Schools can show them a picture of body part and ask questions

For example: They may point to shoulder in the picture and ask what this is and the child has to reply this is shoulder.

SET III - Actions

Child is asked to identify the actions like pointing to an action; they may ask what the boy/girl is doing.

As a reference I am giving a picture with few actions. There can be any other actions like brushing, combing, bathing, exercising etc.

SET IV - WritingSkill -- 4+ age group

At the age of 4, your child should know writing A to Z

1. Write from A to Z in capital letters

2. Write you name.

3. They may be asked to write missing letters like

    A __ C __ E __ G __ I ___ etc

SET V - Numerical Skill -- 4+ age group

By the age of 4 year, your child should be able to count from 1 to 100 and writing at least from 1 to 60

1.    Random your child will be asked to count from 1 to 10 or maybe from 60 to 70 or from 41 to 60 etc

2.    Back count from 20 to 0 or 15 to 0 or 10 to 0

3.    Fill in the Missing numbers

For example: _ 2 _ 4 _ _ 7 _ _ 10

4.    Write the after numbers

For Example: 5 _, 7 _, 10 _ etc

5.    Alternatively, they may ask what comes after 5, what comes 7, what comes 10 etc

6.    Similarly, they may also ask about before numbers like what comes before 5, what comes before 7 etc

7.    Count from 10. (In this case your child should start counting from 10 and should continue till s/he is asked to stop)

Once the child is done with all the above sets, s/he is ready to move to the next level. Questions below are not very commonly asked.

SET VI  - Picture Reading -- This is for 4+ age group

Now a day, many schools ask the child for picture reading.

 They may show the picture of a birthday party or Hospital/Doctor’s clinic or Zoo etc and from that picture they will ask different questions.

For example: I am show a picture of a birthday party

Related questions to this picture:

1. What is this picture about?

2. What is boy doing? (answer: blowing candles)

3. Pointing to the cake, what is this?

4. How many girls/boys are there?

5. How many candles/balloons are there?

6. What are the colors of balloons?

Do similar exercise with pictures like Zoo, Park, Classroom, Hospital etc.

SET VII

1.    What is your favorite indoor game?

2.    What is your favorite outdoor game?

3.    What is our national animal?

4.    What is our national bird?

5.    What is our national anthem?

6.    What is name of our country?

7.    How many colors are there in our National Flag? What are they?

8.    How many colors are there is a traffic signal? What are they?

9.    Have you seen rainbow?

10. How many colors are there in the rainbow? What are they?

11. Have you seen butterfly?

12. Butterfly is a bird or insect?

13. Can butterfly fly?

14. Are you a smart or bad boy?

Etiquettes

Another important thing that is observed during admission is Etiquettes.

A child should at least learn to say Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening and Thank You.

When your child enter the room for interaction with teachers, he or she should say Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening (as applicable).

If he or she is asked to sit then they should say Thank You.

Most of the school gives chocolate to the candidates. Your child should learn to say Thank You after taking the chocolate.

Sometimes they will be asked to pick up from a cluster of chocolates or toffees. Teach your child to pick up only once chocolate or toffee from the lot and then say Thank You.

Shapes

Your child should have idea of some basic shapes. He or she should able to relate a shape to an object.

They may ask the child to identify a given shape. They may also ask questions like what is shape of a ball, egg etc.