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[quote=Anonymous]Look, no one is advocating anything other than following the guidelines for the CogAT:  Be well rested and have a good breakfast.  That will eliminate some of the uncertainty, and give the county the number closer to the actual intelligence / potential (which is what they want).

Here is an example that maybe you can get:  prepping for a medical test.  I used to eat a high fat diet.  In the week before my blood tests for cholesterol, I would watch what I eat, then go back to the regular diet.  My numbers looked better than they were 90% of the time, so there were no changes to my medicine.  I fooled the metric, but did not change the need for a cardiac stent.

Prepping for the CogAT is like dieting the week before the cholesterol test:  it causes the test to return information that is not useful, and the person using the information does not know it is not useful.

So the CogAT is like the cholesterol test.  The more extensive test, the WISC, is like the Cardiac Cath, which captured the blockage.  Alternatively, The Dr. could just listen to my wife who says I do not eat well -- GBRS of 2 from the teacher.

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