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The OP was referring to the type of "test prep" for the CogAT that involves knowing what test form will be used this year and what books to use or courses to take in advance. The OP was not referring to the general knowledge that a child had picked up from his parents or home environment. A child does not just "happen" to come across samples of the questions in the CogAT.

You can learn something about how a child learns by seeing how the child reacts to and deals with problems he or she has never seen before. A child can be taught to do these problems ahead of time, but then the tester is no longer learning about how a child deals with a new problem, is he? Yes, scores can be boosted by exposure, but when the point of the test is to see the the reaction to a[b] first[/b] exposure, the test has been short-circuited when the child has had repeated and recent exposures to the same types of problems.

The test is no longer measuring how a child deals with a fresh problem but how a child deals with a problem already encountered many times. If the school personnel think they are seeing a score that reflects a child's [b]first exposure[/b] to the problems, but the child has been shown in advance how to work out the problems and has practiced working them, than the score reflects something different than the school is looking for.

The school is using these tests as one part of a process to identify children who need a particular type of educational situation. That's all- they are just trying to match the needs of the child to the most suitable classroom situation for each child to learn the most he or she possibly can. We adults have turned this into some golden educational ring to grab, but that golden ring is not necessarily the right one for each child.

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