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This isn't that difficult. This thread has not been about general good educational activities that teach children about hard work and study. Here is what it's about:

[quote]The CogAT is an ability test, meant to measure ability, not knowledge. It has nothing to do with the SAT and the ACT, which are subject matter tests.

"Prepping/Scamming the Cogat" = the practice of showing children ability test question types that the children are not supposed to see until the day of the test.

CogAT test prep consists of courses or books that involve practicing over and over again the types of questions that a child can expect to see on the CogAT.

"Hard work, study and preparation" have nothing to do with this test. The company even says that the scores are not reliable if a child takes it twice within a certain length of time: that is because a child will get a higher score simply because of familiarity with the test format. Just think how unreliable the score is if the child has been doing the questions over and over again for months. 
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No one has denied that educational preparation is a good thing. People have a problem with showing kids test questions before the test.

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