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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not confident that this is a real post (it reads like an ad) but here goes...

The problem with targeted test prep is that if you are found out it will, at best, invalidate the test and, at worst, be a stain on your DD's record.

The way to avoid being found out is to explicitly tell your DD not to let the examiner know that she did the prep (because the WISC is a one-on-one test, not done in a group, and your DD will chat with the examiner as she works).

If you tell your daughter to hide the prep, you have sent two messages: 1) we are having you do something which many think of as cheating and so you have to keep a secret and 2) we don't think you are smart enough to succeed on your own. These are not messages I would want to send to my child.

So I wouldn't do it. [/quote]

Agree with this poster. I believe that if the subject has taken the test within the last year, the test is not to be given again until they are out of that window.   Familiarity with the test confounds the results. Prepping would have the same effect as actually taking the test in terms of making the child familiar with the test, so the results would not be reliable.

When my child took the WISC IV, I was specifically asked if he had taken the test within the last year because they could not give the test agin if he had. 
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