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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to know if test prep is cheating, ask your school. Ask them what test they are using so your child can prepare. See what their response is to you. That should tell you what you need to know. [b]The schools do not publicize the contents of the tests because the schools do not want the results to be influenced by the parents[/b].[/quote]

Please enlighten me (not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious). If the contents of MCPS HGC tests are such a secret, why do top private schools require their applicants to take well-publicized intelligence tests and send them the results? Wouldn't it be 'fair' to have every Sidwell applicant take an unknown highly classified test proctored by the teachers in the same classroom on the same day rather than letting Larlo know in advance he should study for and take  the WISC-V to get in?

Using this logic, why is it such a secret that HGC applicants would be required to take Cogat and be recommended by their second-grade teacher?

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Those two admission processes are unrelated. Private schools tell you to take the WISC.[b] MCPS doesn't tell you anything[/b]. The only way to find out what the exam is is to search for it on the internet. Of course that's cheating. If you were applying for a job and they said come see us, no need to prepare, just get a good night's sleep, and we will have some interview questions for you, do you think it would be cheating to go look at Internet message boards to try to figure out what the interview questions will be? Think about it -- how did you even know they used the cogat (which I don't think they use anymore)? You read it on an internet message board. It's cheating.[/quote]

The question is, why? Why doesn't MCPS tell all HGC applicants that they will take the Cogat (or the NNAT, or whatever else) and private schools do? Admission to top privates is equally competitive, if not more so, than HGC admission..

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