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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21:25:  You are the reason (personally) why kids with low GBRS and high CogAT's  are not admitted.  IT is possible to train the kids on how to take tests.  This has nothing to do with any learning ability, but rather test taking strategies.

What the central committee is looking for is any child that is potentially advanced academically. Since the test scores can be manipulated (you infer that) by tiger moms, that becomes less of an indicator of ability than one would ideally like.  That is why we have GBRS.

WISC IV is less biased, but if you trained a child, I bet you could cook the score.  Cooking the score does not help intelligence.

Test prep for the SAT's can help you get admitted to college, but will not help you in differential equations.  This is why colleges do not just rely on SAT's.  [/quote]

This is my concern....my DC scored a 149 on the NNAT (no prep, didn't even know what day the test was given).  DC is only 1st grade so we don't have Cogat yet.  Performs very average for 1st grade teacher since she doesn't meet her at her level (K teacher's assessment).  If this teacher were to do the GBRS my kid might not get into AAP because of this teacher style mixed with my DCs personality.

Worried now it will look like we prepped when we didn't![/quote]

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