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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Generally, when people refer to prepping they are talking about time spent working on the types of questions they expect to see on a particular test. That is why people ask which form of the test will be given. 
They are not talking about general exposure to "western humanity and books."[/quote]

So you are telling me if studying arithematic, reading, vocabulary, analogies and similies will not prepare me for test questions?  Who needs the actual questions if you know and are familiar what subject domains are tested?  One can indeed "prep" without taking a course, attending a "prep" salon, working on the next Princeton or Barons review guidebook.  One does not need secondary sources (questions) to "prep" for a test.  You can prep with the primary source (exposure to good literature and books).  What do you think folk did before Princeton Review when there were libraries, pen and paper..."prep" my dear "prep".  The best "prep" is to actually anticipate and make up your own questions based on the subject matter/content of test.  In the days before Baron and Princeton review we tried to predict the questions and at least 1/3 to 1/2 would show up in some shape or form.

You can "prep" with spending time working on the types of questions (e.g., Princeton review) and you can "prep" studying the subject material and thinking about the types of questions you may encounter.  It's all "prep" for heaven's sake.  Increasing "prep" is positively correlated with increasing SES (it matters not the flavor of "prep"...the end is the same).[/quote]

I don't know if Barron and Princeton Review produce CogAT study materials, but if they do, that is exactly the type of "test prep" to which the OP was referring. Sure, one could refer to a family atmosphere which engenders a love of reading and art and music as "test prep," but really, that is not what is in the average person's mind when the term "test prep" is used. When people ask which CogAT form will be used this year or which book they should buy to prep a rising second grader for the CogAT this Fall, the answer they are looking for does not involve reading to their children every night or going to art museums or enjoying good music together.  All the other ways of "prepping" mentioned here are surely good for a child's well-being and long term education, but they are not what the average person means by the use of the term "test prep."

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