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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the OP.  I have heard of children getting in this year by raising their scores significantly from NNAT to Cogat with prepping.  (Wouldn't have had a chance with just the NNAT scores from last year when there was no time to prep for it.)  I don't think the OP said it was necessarily a terrible thing - just a fact.  Each to his/her own as long as its ethical and legal...   What it does to the "level of thinking"  within the AAP classroom is the question.  [/quote]

Not necessarily.

NNAT measures Non-Verbal ability for the most part. My DC got mid 120's NNAT and high 140s Cogat composite. Cogat Non-Verbal score was 128, right around NNAT but the Verbal and Quantitative were 140 and 148 respectively. No preparation on either test.

You can't assume every child with a rise in scores from one test to another is prepping or cheating. In fact as a special education teacher told me, variance in test scores at this age is expected. It's unusual for a child to score 2 standard deviations above the norm on all tests, except the exceptionally gifted who consistently score 3 standard deviations higher.[/quote]

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