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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong CoGat score, does that mean they REALLY belong in AAP?  Doesn't that defeat the original purpose of AAP?[/quote]

Like with driver license driving test? You are right? Nobody should prepare, either you are natural or you go. Driving is very instinct based process so if you can't pass in the first run you go. I have no idea about the CoGat Prep but I don't see any harm letting kid to do few online short sample tests so they will know what is it. Otherwise this would be unfair to them because it is very different from anything they ever did. 
It is fair that teachers did demonstrate the interface for PARK and  let kids to do sample tests to practice, so why would it be not fair to let a child to see the format of CoGAt and let them be comfortable with it when they see it.
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I think that is fine too.  Problem is that only some kids get that.  There are kids who go in cold (no information on it whatsoever), kids who have been introduced to different types of problems (maybe by school or by parents), kids who got a workbook/practice test and have gone through it and kids who went to a summer long prep school/get tutoring to score better in CogAT.  They can never even the playing field. [/quote]

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