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How do you prep a kid for the test? Isn't the test straight forward?[/quote]

Google NNAT and take a look at the first page or two of links. There are people who sell test prep packages and there are tutoring programs that people enroll their kids in that teach them how to answer the questions. So you can teach the pattern recognition to the kids. There are similar packages available for the CogAT that is taken in second grade.

The committee looks at the super high scores with suspicion because it can be prepped. There are teachers who will tell you that they hear kids saying that they knew the questions before hand, those would be kids who were repped usiing old tests and recognized the questions.

There is no doubt that a very small percentage of kids will score a perfect score without prepping but it is rare. [/quote]

You mention "teaching the pattern recognition", but isn't that just another thing/activity kids learn like numbers, letters, mazes, "spot the difference", connect the dots, and myriad other things.  My eldest child loves workbooks that have all these different types of activities in them.  So if some of the workbooks have pattern recognition as part of them then am I "prepping"?  Or only if I were to buy and give them test-specific prep materials?  I'm just getting up to speed on this topic (my eldest is Pre-K / 5yo) and sometimes unclear what people mean by prepping...[/quote]

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