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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of insecure parents who feel that if a kid is going to sit for a multiple choice exam and the same kids practise on multiple choice sample questions they have an unfair advantage.  Insecurity galore.
If the same kid sits for an exam requiring an essay response to a prompt and they practised writing essays at home to made up prompts...this to is an unfair advantage.  Boy oh boy.
How do you plan to prevent children from possible exposure to form, format and similar content given the ubiquity of information and data (e.g., schools, summer camps, tutors, educational programs on TV, online classes, conversation with educated surrounds) in the 21st century home and neighborhood?

The solution is quite simple.  Jack up the difficulty of the test.  Quick and easily done.  We do not need laypeople discussions about what the definition of preparation, prep, studying, worksheets, commercial products, non-profit educational products, form, format, tutors (paid and non-paid).  We do not need comments from folk who believe the field is level when SES differentiates which kids get the best schools, teachers, education, tutors, books, and exposure to the type of subject matter precisely examined by the very tests they claim level the playing field.

Make the test tough.  Enough of the everyone on these boards talking about their 99.9 percent kid.  Make it damn near impossible to get 99.9 % or mastery of the test...then and only then you may have a real test.

When I was in school (British system) it was rare to get scores over 50%.  Those kids were head and shoulders (in intelligence) over the crowd I supervise here claiming giftedness.[/quote]

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