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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Maybe so, but it also means that the "wealth hurdle" is $20.[/quote]

Were those books sharing test questions from prior years?

Paying $$$$ to have access to previous test questions on an NDA-protected test provides an unfair advantage to wealthy kids in admissions for a public school program.

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The C4TJ set wants to minimize the significance of this advantage because they prefer a system that is easily gamed by throwing money at it[/quote]

They are even more effective at buying with the current admissions.  A top student that doesn't go to prep under the old system could still get in.  Doesn't look to be the case now unless they have quota points.
People who paid for prep could still get in.[/quote]

You sound bitter. The top students from each school now get preference, but previously, you had to get a top score on a test where many had advanced access.[/quote]

That's the problem.  
A lot of top students are not getting in.
The process is relatively random.
All in the pursuit of a more palatable demographic profile.[/quote]

False! The new system sets aside spots for the very top 1.5% from each school.[/quote]

It's pretty random.  
The math question was extremely easy and required very simple algebra. 
The schools with less than 10 students probably had fewer than 50 students in the applicant pool that provided complete answers to the essay questions.
If 100 kids from your school are in the applicant pool, you probably have about 20 students getting in.
The admitted students represent a cross section of the applicant pool.
This was all in an effort to reduce the number of asian kids and increase the number of kids with other skin colors, including white kids.[/quote]

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