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[quote=Anonymous]I find this thread really interesting, and I think there is probably a fine line between formal "prepping" and what we all, as educated parents, do with our children everyday.  My DS took the WPPSI a few weeks ago.  I chose the tester in September from a list of recommended testers on the website for one of the schools we planned to apply to (didn't end up applying) and scheduled the test for December.  I chose her because she was the cheapest (shrug).  I didn't think a thing about the WPPSI again until the day before the test when I googled "what should I tell my child about the WPPSI," and I told DS that he would play with a nice lady and she would probably do some puzzles with him, play with some blocks, ask him about some words, etc.  But I otherwise have very little understanding of what the WPPSI questions are actually like--would knowing multiplication tables really even help with the WPPSI?  We, too, picked up those workbooks at Costco about a year ago, just because I knew my kid would enjoy them as he's obsessed with writing and recording everything.  DS picks them up whenever he wants; I didn't put them in front of him daily for the two months before the test (to me that is more like "prepping" but again it's a fine line).  DS had a blast with the WPPSI and scored in the 97th percentile.  Maybe he would have been with the other 99th percentile kids on this board if I had "prepped" him.  :-)    [/quote]

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