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The Cogat cannot be "prepared" like the SAT or GRE, in that it's not knowledge-based. It purports to test your innate critical thinking skills, rather like an IQ test. Now of course, critical thinking skills can be honed with practice, but you cannot get significantly better than what your innate intelligence allows. So an intense amount of prep for Cogat isn't going to increase the score in a huge way. It might increase it a little bit, and most importantly, it will reduce any anxiety your child may have, when faced with an unfamiliar test.

So it's perfectly FINE to familiarize your child with the test format, or even to do multiple rounds of prep, because, contrary to what some people believe, there's only so much you can improve. This also means you don't need to overdo the prep.

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Agree, this is a test that prepping cannot increase the score significantly.  For the people believe this is cheating, have you look at the questions yourself?  if you have no clue what the answer is then you have no clue, it's all dependent on your mental capacity...  there are no special methods can magically bring you the correct answers to these questions...  [/quote]

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