Point increase by prepping

[Anonymous]

Any of you had kids who took the actual NNAT or CogAT without and with prepping? By how many points did the score improve?

Is it worth prepping for these?

The teachers say ‘no prepping can help’. The test prep centers beg to differ.

[Anonymous]

Prepping can raise the score 10-20 points, sometimes less and sometimes more.

[Anonymous]

Your answer is a no answer. It’s basically you’re saying the test is not solid, but without any proof.

[Anonymous]

I think people here believe that the kids with high scores were prepped. My child with perfect NNAT and 143 COGAT was not prepped. Child also has 99% IQ and dyslexia. These test play to their strengths. Reading abilities are not a direct correlation for IQ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any of you had kids who took the actual NNAT or CogAT without and with prepping? By how many points did the score improve?

Is it worth prepping for these?

The teachers say ‘no prepping can help’. The test prep centers beg to differ.

Worth it?? If your child's borderline, then yes it certainly is. There is VERY little/no difference between the smarter kids in General Ed, and the lower/mid tier in AAP. AAP generally gets better teachers and less disruptive students (not all mind you), and more teacher focus to the whole class rather than the struggling students. The gamut of prepping is also extremely wide, from buying a practice test to review, to online services that provide a similar test-like structure, to entire classes/centers dedicated to the experience. Honestly, I'd recommend either no, or limited prep for NNAT, as that is really kind of a practice round for the more important COGAT in 2nd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people here believe that the kids with high scores were prepped. My child with perfect NNAT and 143 COGAT was not prepped. Child also has 99% IQ and dyslexia. These test play to their strengths. Reading abilities are not a direct correlation for IQ.

Please explain. IQ=99 is roughly average, and it sounds like your kid is well above average based on those scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people here believe that the kids with high scores were prepped. My child with perfect NNAT and 143 COGAT was not prepped. Child also has 99% IQ and dyslexia. These test play to their strengths. Reading abilities are not a direct correlation for IQ.

Please explain. IQ=99 is roughly average, and it sounds like your kid is well above average based on those scores.

Not the pp but they said 99 PERCENTILE IQ not IQ score of 99.

[Anonymous]

Of course prepping works.

[Anonymous]

I'm not so sure. DS got a 136, entirely unprepared on WISC.

We did flashcards for COGAT months later, he also got a 136 on that.

If anything, there was a five percentage point bump on nonverbal section of Cogat after prepping compared to WISC/NNAT, which was his weakest area.