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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]" Aptitude tests are not desired to be studied for. "

So true. Prepping for an aptitude test is an oxymoron.[/quote]

This is actually false. Anyone can improve their result on any test through preparation. They start by first understanding they types and categories of questions and then practice similar type of questions. This is true for ANY test, including IQ tests and math competitions. Those are just harder to prep for, because the questions (at least the harder ones) are intelligently designed to be less preppable for. That is why IQ tests are oxymorons, they are just ability tests disguised as "aptitude".

Again, the real issue is that the tests are too easy, because they are lazily designed by (likely) FCPS incompetents and/or their consultant cronies. This also applies to the ridiculously easy SATs that the College Board charges ridiculous amounts of money for, yet barely makes a change year after year (because OMG making a change would throw off the historical comparisons and it'd be the end of the world...?!). So of course tens of thousands of students achieve perfect scores on the SAT, by wait for it.... prepping. That's why competitive colleges no longer look at SATs as a measure of much of anything, just a minimum low bar filter to use for struggling students who definitely should not get in.

The anti-prepping attitude is stupid. Worse, it's a hidden excuse made by some who resent the fact that they would have to put in some hard work (i.e prep) to improve their chance of attending. So they prefer to instead claim that people shouldn't prep, which muddles the whole conversation of the issue at hand.

Cheating on the other hand, is a very valid concern. But that is very different from prepping, and should be absolutely minimized. And as I've said in other threads, the best way to remove cheating is to CHANGE the test or tests every year! That means the FCPS bureaucrats should get off their butts and actually do something, it's not that hard to create a new test vs "tweaking" the prior years one, keeping it "secret", and letting the "market" (i.e the large prep companies) reap the rewards. This is just FCPS driving inequity, through laziness. FCPS should be the ones playing the prepping role, especially for low income students, and they should provide the service for free. And by not keeping past tests secret, it will absolutely tear into the large profits the prep centers are making because it will deincentivize many families from paying them money just to get a large number of practice problems.[/quote]

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