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[quote=Anonymous]I am the PP who took her DC and friend to a test prep center (not Aristotle - but A plus in Rockville)... for HGC prep...

I really don't know if there was any content mastery in the HGC prep...again...only 30% got in...which is certainly higher than the general pool ...however...this was a self selected group of people, wanted to get into HGC, had the money for this expensive prep class...

I am sure they learnt how to take the test, how to time themselves, familiarity with Scantron, sitting still etc...what they taught was much-much harder than what the real test was like.

We did not prep the kids for Raven or InView etc...mainly because we did not even know that these tests were being administered...the school does not inform you and say  we will be taking these tests...

DS was off the chart at 7 1/2 for Raven and InView...99 percentile for everything ...after I got the results and teacher feedback etc (new to the school) - I was panicking that I am supposed to do something with this kid - and that I am being lax with his abilities.  So I asked around ...when I took him to the center for an evaluation test, he and his friend only did marginally well, as compared to other kids there.

So - no prep for Raven etc...prep for HGC...but not sure if this was a placebo effect...
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