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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the issue is not prepping per se.  It is prepping using a copy of the test, presumably with the right answers.  [b] It is like taking an IQ test when someone gave you the answers the day before.  It does not make you smarter, but it will raise your measured score.[/b]

So, you can raise your score on the CogAT (maybe), but the raised score does not make you smarter, and does not make you more capable of doing AAP work.  That is the issue.

The think is, in some countries, test prep is the standard operating positions....where there is one chance to excel, and if you "blow" the test you can not succeed.  In the USA, one test never defines you.  There are multiple second chances, whether it be taking a WISC for AAP appeal to multiple SAT's to open enrollment community colleges.

It does not matter where you start your education.  It matters where you finish.  In the USA, prepping for the CogAT will have minimal impact on your overall life.

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the same "form" of the test apparently was being used for prep - not a test with the exact same questions. Nobody had the  correct answers ahead of time.  Practicing the materials would presumably raise a kid's measured score - that's the whole point of prepping.[/quote]

Yes, the point of "prepping" is to raise the measured score, but the "score" is not useful if it has been artificially inflated.

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