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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With the same logic, it's also unfair that some kids have higher IQ than others. Eventually the only solution that can make you satisfied is to make TJ admission a lottery.

Better nobody studies and nobody works. We all stay at home waiting for the god send us food. As long we study and work, there will be differences. Somebody who's smarter and works harder will have a better performance and therefore it is unfair.[/quote]

No. Just don’t prep for certain tests that you shouldn’t prep for.

It’s not that hard. 
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It actually is that hard.  You can't force other people to refrain from prepping.  Even if the test is supposed to be secure, people will find a way to prep.  Your only choices are
1. Bury your head in the sand and keep insisting that people just shouldn't prep.  Wring your hands when half of them ignore you and prep anyway.  
2. Help everyone prep, so everyone is on a more equal footing.  Recognize that the absolute scores are not valid, but the scores relative to the other preppers are useful.   
3. Eliminate standardized testing and instead rely on more subjective, more easily gamed, and/or more random selection criteria.

Option 2 is the best to me.  [/quote]

So you'd provide any student who requests it Curie level prep? Or by help everyone do you mean give the poor kids a couple of work books and an hour or two with an underpaid tutor who doesn't actually understand the test?[/quote]

Exactly. There's a reason these courses cost 5K a pop. [/quote]
There is a reason, but it's not what you think.  The reason is that people are stupid enough to pay that much money for a prep class that won't help their kids that much.  There are diminishing returns for studying more for things like the SAT or CogAT.  Curie kids don't necessarily gain much over what kids would gain from 2 workbooks and a moderately competent coach, assuming that they're not prepping for allegedly secured exams.  Very few SAT cram classes can show score increases that come even close to justifying the cost.  There are just too many affluent, desperate, foolish people floating around.  [/quote]

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