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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I have never hired a tutor for my child. There are tutors in FCPS, but I think it is a minority of people that do that.[/quote]

Is this true for SAT and ACT prep services for your children in preparation for College.  You forgot to answer my question -- you artful dodger cuty pie.[/quote]

And I am not equating prep for the SAT, which is largely vocabulary for college-bound HS students to [b]a general test given to 7 year olds that is to measure intelligence.  [/b]SAT is supposed to measure the likelyhood of success in college.  CogAT measures the inate ability of a 7 yo.   Different things, different strategies.

But then, I must be  privaliged, as I am multigenerational american.  And worse, I am Jewish.  So I do not have to work, nor does my kid.  Things are handed to me.

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Source please.  [b]The CogAt is to measure intelligence? [/b]  I thought one couldn't prep for an intelligence test; if so, what's the big problem with letting people waste their time prepping? [/quote]

fine, but some poster keeps saying it is supposed to measure intelligence, raw intelligence etc. 
The CogAt is not an intelligence test.  It's simply a test of reasoning ability.  Kids who score high on the CogAt are not necessarily any smarter than those who don't.[/quote][/quote]

The CogAT is not an Intelligence test.  But FCPS is using as a proxy for intelligence, as they have no better measure that is affordable.  The CogAT scores should scale with intelligence, but also be impacted by other factors, such as prep.  That is why fcps does not want prep:  it makes the CogAT less reliable in measuring Intelligence.

(I am the poster that said it is being used as an intelligence test).[/quote]

so you're saying that someone [i]can[/i] prep for an intelligence test?[/quote]

Real IQ tests are individually administered. They interact, ask questions and observe the person taking the test. The people giving it are well trained in spotting kids that have been prepped.  The CogAT is a group test, no individual attention is given  and thus is MUCH easier to prep for.[/quote]

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