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[quote=Anonymous][quote]And what determines ability? Intelligence

- you will not see a kid with poor intelligence- do well on an ability test such as the COGAT.

But since you all are so hung up on it, lets call it the ability test. Happy?[/quote]

Actually, no.  It's not just semantics.  Ability and intelligence are not the same thing or interchangeable.  There are intelligence tests that measure IQ and there are tests like the NNAT and CogAT that measure ability.  You can improve "ability" to perform well on these tests with practice & preparation; that's not true for tests that measure intelligence.  So you may see a kid who has practiced be able to perform better than he otherwise would/should on the ability tests, but not on intelligence tests.

You act like others are being nit-picky with their words, but really you just seem not to understand that there are two distinct categories of tests.  Nobody said there's no relation between the two, but they do measure different things. [/quote]

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