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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't get an actual copy of the test unless you have the appropriate license. The publishing companies go to great lengths to keep the tests secure so they are valid.

There are some disreputable companies who try their hardest to duplicate the test in order to prep kids and allegedly boost their performance. [b]There is no actual evidence this works[/b]. Also, the second your child starts saying things like "Oh, yeah, these puzzles again!" and "I practiced questions like this with my tutor Miss Judy." the psychologist will know your child was prepped. They will either stop testing, or put language in the report indicating that the scores may be invalid or artificially inflated.

As for playing and doing puzzles with your child, knock yourself out. These activities are unlikely to affect your child's performance, though.
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[b]If there is no evidence that that works, why would it then invalidate the test?[/b][/quote]

Because it is cheating and the norms are based on children who did not prep! Thus, the score is invalid! [/quote]

Yes. The tests are not normed on children who have had multiple exposures to them, so it is difficult to interpret scores of children who have been exposed to the test materials inappropriately. In real life situations you do not give the same child the same IQ test within a 6 month-1 year time period because their scores MAY be affected due to practice effects.

So, putting aside all ethics, if you choose to prep your child using materials from a company who has unethically tried to replicate the IQ test, your child might have a slight boost in scores due to practice effects. Or they may not. Or their scores may go down because the practice they did was just different enough they are confused about what is actually expected of them. Or they are bored with it. There are lots of ways this plan can go wrong. Including the child alerting the examiner to their practice, which, ethically, the examiner is required to address, either by stopping testing or by noting in the final report that the scores may be invalid.[/quote]

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