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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The test problems are meant to be brand new to each child.[/quote]

This largely explains why children of high SES generally perform better (on any of these tests)when presented with the poster's simplistic and puerile concept of "brand new test probelms".  Most of us understand that most subject matter contains clearly defined threads, topics, themes, patterns and domains.  The enrichment we can afford to provide for our children (by the luck of birth) -- through museums, travel, music, languages, reading, computers, games, puzzles, great schools and teachers, small classes, after school and summer academic enrichment activities -- exposes (exposes, trains, prepares, preps) our children to these repeating patterns, themes and domains of knowledge.  A "brand new test problem" is simple recognition of a familiar pattern, concept, theorem, law in "disguise."

Practise, training and simply doing and solving problems over and over again allows one to quickly recognise the disguises.  Recognition of the "disguise"  takes the "brand new" out of the test problem.  Please do not deceive yourself.

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