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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the main CES acceptance letter thread, there is mention of kids undergoing prep courses for the Cogat. Is this really s thing? If your kid was accepted into CES, did they take a prep course or other study in an attempt to score well
on the cogat?

My son was accepted with MCPS 95%, National 99%. No test prep.[/quote]

Accepted, no test prep, and it's not really a thing. There's a lot of racism and misunderstanding on this board from insecure parents looking to blame something or someone for their child not getting in. The afternoon or Saturday classes are enrichment so they will do extra math and extra writing packets just like many many parents do at home. And believe me I know a ton of parents who roll their eyes at these Chinese programs but they have books upon books at home and even demand that teachers let their kids do enrichment workbooks at school because their kids are so "bored." There is not much difference in these two approaches, except many of the parents who sent their kids to these after school programs are first-generation immigrants and may not have the same background to be able to do the enrichment at home.

Some of these providers do give a limited amount of standardized testing overview like how to guess on questions that are multiple choice, but you cannot prep for an IQ test which is what Cogat is. You can familiarize yourself with the format of the questions but that's about it. My child said that when they took the Cogat screener test a large number of kids -- all white kids, FWIW -- came out saying they were surprised it was only however many sections it was instead of having more sections and why weren't those sections included. Obviously they had done some test "prep" at home but their parents would never call it that.

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We didn't prep and kid is currently in 5th grade at CES.  At a school event earlier in the school year I was actually approached by a parent of another CES student who asked, point-blank, which programs we were using to prep for the middle school test.  Not if, but which ones (plural).  I was dumbfounded.  I just shook my head and replied 'a good nights sleep and a big breakfast'.  Ironically, that child was not accepted into a middle school magnet.  [/quote]

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