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But it's not really about your particular kids. It is entirely possible that your particular kids would have scored over a certain percentage on the CogAT with or without prepping them with sample tests.

Here are two reasons why people are concerned about the practice of "Prepping/Scamming the Cogat:"

1. The CogAT results are not reliable when students have spent hours going over sample test questions and answers.

2. Businesses take advantage of the fact that parents want a good education for their children and try to convince them that:

a) A Fairfax County education is second rate unless it's AAP. And,

b) Practicing sample CogAT test for hours in advance of the test is the way to ensure that their children "make it into" AAP.

Here is what the AAP office had to say last week about recent changes to the test in Fairfax County:

[quote]FCPS staff members chose to administer the custom form of the CogAT this year after it came to our attention that some students, in previous years, had prepared for the CogAT using the exact form of the CogAT being administered in FCPS. [/quote]

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