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It’s wrong to prepare for some tests. Cogat. The old TJ test. 
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At the risking of opening up an old can of worms, I've never understood this line of reasoning. Is it better to be unprepared than to be prepared, for anything?

If I'm going to be tested, I want to do as well as I can. Knowing the format of the test and the type of content it addresses seems like an obvious aspect of preparation to undertake. If it's a timed test, then practicing to get a feel for how quickly I need to work also makes sense.

Don't athletes, musicians, actors practice before a tryout? Don't students study before a class exam? Don't job candidates prepare for interviews? [/quote]

This was exactly my point too. Preparation shows determination, dedication, willingness to learn and grow, and shows the kid will be successful.[/quote]

How do the kids know to prepare for the cogat or how to do?

Same for TJ - how are they signing up for these prep programs? 
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Now you're just being silly. Kids also don't know how to improve at sports or a musical instrument - that's why there are coaches and teachers. Kids only know to study for a school exam because the tacher tells them to - is that also unethical? Is it cheating if they study for a test rather than passing based on their own merits?

Why go to school at all? After all, the point is to learn and grow and improve, which sounds just as unethical by your reasoning.[/quote]

The purpose of prep programs such as Curie is NOT to make the kids brighter or better prepared for school - it's to make them APPEAR brighter than they are by showing them how to solve the specific types of problems that are being asked (remember - the Quant-Q is NOT a math exam!). They're not magically smarter somehow because their score on an admissions exam improves.

The best way to think of Curie is as a coach who knows what other coaches are looking for in a tryout and teaches the kids those specific skills in order to make them look better. A skilled evaluator can sniff out kids like this and not be fooled by their performance in the tryout.

Hundreds of kids have been denied admission to TJ over the years - and even in some cases been denied from the semifinalist pool - because of scores that were artificially inflated by places like Curie, Sunshine, Kate Dalby, EduAvenues, OptimalTJPrep, etc etc etc. Those kids didn't get smarter - they just got better at taking an exam that is used ONLY to get them into TJ.

THAT's why standardized exams are a problem.
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