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[quote=Anonymous]I think the issue comes to what is trying to be accomplished.  Preparing a child to excel in a specific benchmark is at best dishonest.  When we talk about prepping, it is usually action whose primary purpose is to improve the scores in the CogAT/NNAT so that the child has a better chance at AAP.

That differs from enrichment activities which may boost scores, but by improving the overall child.  Playing with legos, doing puzzles have use beyond the CogAT.  But, CogAT study guides don't.

In computers, a common benchmark for computer systems is something called "geek bench".  Some manufactures (Samsung) have designed systems to get specifically good scores on "geekbench" in manners that do not enhance overall system performance.  For example, if the Geekbench is running, run at a higher cpu speed (decreasing battery life), or worse, hard coding the the deep bench metrics so it just reports better numbers.

That is akin to prepping.  It means that the evaluation is useless.  With a prepped kid, the CogAT has no value.  [/quote]

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