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WISCs are definitely prepped for.  [/quote]
People might try to prep for a WISC, but there's no evidence that doing so will increase a kid's score by more than a few points.  If the kid seems overly prepared, the psychologist will make a note of that in the report, and the IQ score will be considered invalid.  WISC questions and even the nature of the questions are more closely guarded than those for CogAT or NNAT, and the test is much more comprehensive.   People who are going to prep will just do so for the CogAT and NNAT, as prepping can increase those scores by 10 or so points without that much effort.

I think the naysayers in this thread either don't understand or don't believe in IQ tests.  FSIQ scores above 140 are ridiculously high.  I don't care if those kids are showing nothing at all to their teachers.  They are beyond gifted and need gifted services.   The gap between an IQ 140 kid and most of the kids in AAP is the same as the gap between a typical AAP kid and a completely average kid.  Kids who score just a 130 are still going to be among the smartest kids within AAP, so keeping them out is silly.  The only reason scores above 130 don't "seem high" is that IQ tests from 30 years ago either used ratio scales or were inflated, so more kids received high scores.[/quote]

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