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[quote=Anonymous]COGAT or NNAT doesn't need special coaching.. too much prepping might be an overkill and confuse the kids. You can find books with sample tests on amazon or even local stores. You can familiarize your kid with types of questions, how to read problem slowly and carefully, practice to avoid mistakes by elimination rather than picking first answer that looks correct to their eyes in hurry etc. Also, they need to learn to focus continuously for 30min as they need to answer 50 questions in one stretch, which is more difficult than you think. The actual test will likely have very different questions and even they may change the pattern of questions in or two sub-sections, but it shouldn't really matter. The whole point here is, you are teaching your kid simple strategies so he/she will be less nervous and avoid silly mistakes as this is probably longest test kids would take until now.

Both my kids scored well in both NNAT and COGAT and admitted to AAP with good teacher comments. I don't know how they would have scored if they weren't exposed to practice tests, but they told actual test was very easy and I wasted their time with practice test. Oh well! But, I am sure that little preparation and answering strategies helped them avoid at least a few mistakes. [/quote]

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