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I have a child like this as well. She did above avg on the group ability test but was clearly gifted on the individual IQ test. It has been the same thing with group vs. individual achievement tests. It can be very frustrating as a parent when your child isn't getting recognized as what she is due to poor group test results.

I guess that I see a distinction btwn prepping a child for a group test in the hopes that she will do as well as she already has on an individual test vs. prepping a child with answers in the hopes that she will appear more able than she really is.

"Everyone's doing it" doesn't make a wrong thing right. I am very uncomfortable at the idea of prepping children for the SBV, which is an individualized IQ test.

Lorel, Agreed and I have never prepped either dd for any test they've taken which might be why dd#2 did so much worse on the CogAT than the WISC. A lot of the other parents here who are hoping to get their kids into the TAG class prep for the CogAT.

I'm extremely uncomfortable with the practice as well. Only I'd be less uncomfortable were I faced with the prospect of my kid getting stuck in some dilapidated NYC school as a result of taking the proverbial high road.

You are correct is saying that "Everyone's doing it" doesn't make it right. But a mile in their inner-city shoes might make me a little more understanding.