Testing ...at No Cost to You

I recently wanted just to "check in" on how my kids would do on a test, how much they could recall from just "general knowledge" but having spent weeks in public school prepping kids for standardized tests and watching them slink their way through, I didn't want that for my kids.

So I went in and goggled "Saxon placement tests" and viola--a great set of tests and instructions for administering and grading. Here is that link: http://www.learningthings.com/articles/saxon-math.aspx (near the bottom of the page under placement tests).

And I also wanted to check their reading vocabulary and comprehension since we do a lot of reading trade books and narrating. I found a good source here from k12: https://eprcontent.k12.com/placement/placement/placement_langarts_2.html

As far as science and history go, I decided not even to try in primary grades. There's such a great amount of info out there and such a varied idea of what kids need to know AND the info is always changing especially in science. I figure that I "test" my kids all the time on those subjects because we are always reading books, watching videos and looking around us.