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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's all wishful interpretation.  The material Insight chose to include in quant-q is based on generic knowledge, and that's what the prep books available on Amazon contain.  It is ridiculous to suggest it is any different from sat, act, etc, or any workbook, textbook for that matter. If Insight believed the amazon prep books had their proprietary information, those wouldn't be allowed to be sold by Amazon for decades for $19.95.  [/quote]

Quant-Q is absolutely different than SAT, ACT, etc. It’s not based on general knowledge - it tests critical thinking skills.

The sections are: 
Pattern Recognition
Probability Combinatorics
Out-of-the-Box Algebra
Geometry and Optimization

If you have seen previous Quant-Q problems then it will not accurately measure “out of the box algebra”.

It’s more like the WISC test. Prior exposure invalidates results. Just because Amazon sells WISC prep books doesn’t mean it’s ok. 
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My question is this:  If a testing center had access to the questions and if that access significantly boosted kids' Quant-Q scores, wouldn't they have observed a lot of applicants with outlier Quant-Q scores that don't correspond to the kid's other test scores, math level, and achievements?  Wouldn't kids like that have been filtered out when the kids went from TJ semifinalist to a TJ finalist?  If I were reviewing the files, and a kid from an affluent area had 99th percentile Quant Q scores, but they didn't have glowing teacher recommendations, significant STEM achievements, and/or weren't highly accelerated in math, it would look pretty suspicious.  It would be doubly so if there were a lot of kids fitting that profile from the same region of the county and racial group.  [/quote]

Well, if the other test scores are more accurate there's no need for the QuantQ especially since it's so easily gamed.[/quote]

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