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[quote=Anonymous][quote][b]A subject matter test is different than an ability test.[/b] There is a reason you can only take the WISC once in any 12 month period. The test's results will be unreliable if the test taker has been exposed to the types of questions on the test within that time.

On the other hand, subject matter tests should be practiced for since they are testing knowledge, not ability.

There is an agenda here to make practice for the SOL appear to be the same as practice for the CogAT, but it leaves out the crucial point that they are not the same kind of test.[/quote]

You are brain washed by the marketing materials of the billion dollar testing industry and their hired psychologists.  There is no difference. [b] One could also institute the rule you can only take a subject test once in any 12 month period[/b].  The rules a made for the convenience and motivation of some entity -- schools, test makers and hired guns and messengers.

"Ability tests" indeed test subject matter; but the clever marketers have you entralled with the notion the subject matter tested by CoGAT is somehow biblical and related to ability.  I submit the subject matter tested by any test SAT, AP exam is related to your ability.  If you are unable to will flunk the test (it doesn't matter what you want to call it -- or what the flavor de jour is).  And one can train for the test (again, no matter what you want to call it).

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