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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Why would someone with intrinsic ability have a "lazy approach"? "[S]omeone who does well on the test because of reading widely and being curious about many subjects" is probably also "organized, goal oriented, industrious, focused, etc." A lazy child likely will not do well on the test. I want our future doctors and scientists to have innate ability and curiosity along with the being goal oriented and industrious. I don't want my future doctor when I'm in a nursing home to be someone who just learned how to answer test questions really well! [/quote]

Again, you're just speculating.  Someone who does well on the test is PROBABLY organized, goal-oriented, industrious, etc.??  Why isn't the opposite just as likely to be true?  I was always an excellent standardized test taker (think 99th percentile on just about everything I took going through school) but I was never really pushed very hard in school and, because things came so easily, I didn't have to work very hard or be very organized to maintain straight As.  I'm one of the least ambitious/industrious people I know!  Things turned out ok for me in the end because while I was floundering around at college, I realized that I would soon graduate and have to get a job in the real world, so I thought, "Why not take the LSAT and go to law school instead?"  So I signed up for the LSAT & didn't prepare, though I knew other people were taking the Kaplan course or whatever prep courses there were.  I didn't see the point in spending money or time on a prep course.  Sure enough, 98th percentile.  I guess if I had prepared, maybe I would have scored in the 99th?  I did have to work hard in law school because that was the first time that I was surrounded by - and competing with - really bright people who were also really hard workers.  But I assure you, lazy children can do extremely well on all kinds of aptitude tests!  Test scores alone do NOT indicate a child's work habits. [/quote]

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