My 3rd Grade daughter is currently awaiting results of the GT selection board. We are new to NoVa this year from California.
She took the CoGat in October as a new student and had some strange results -
Verbal 132 (98%)
Nonverbal 128 (96%)
Quantitative 94 (35%)!
This gave her a composite of 120 (89%).
We were very surprised by these results since one of her strengths is math. I did some research and talked to the GT resource teacher at the school, and it appears that she did poorly on the areas that required speed processing - especially math.
The GT resources teacher recommended that we have her tested at GMU. We paid the $350 and they had her take the WISC-IV-- There were some disparate results for that test too --
The GMU tester recommended that my daughter's GAI be used for evaluation in the final report. Her FSIQ was 126, but her GAI was 140 (99.6%). Again she did poorly in areas that required speed or working memory. She has never diagnosed or considered for ADHD, has a tremednous attention span - but is a perfectionist.
Her WISC-IV Scores look like this:
VCI: 138 99th Very Superior
PRI: 129 97th Superior
WMI: 99 47th Average
PSI: 106 66th Average
GAI: 140 99.6th Very Superior
FSIQ: 126
Does anybody have any thoughts on how Fairfax GT will handle these types of scores?
