Our limited testing experiences have made me wonder which is more accurate, school testing or private. My gut tells me that private testing means much more, but we have very little personal experience to go by.

DD9
NNAT 110 (given at school)
WASI FSIQ 134, PIQ 119, VIQ 140 (given privately)

DD6
NNAT 104 (given at school)
RIAS CIX 114, NIX 121, VIX 105 (given at school)

DD6's scores don't make sense to us, based on what we know about her reading and writing skills. We expected the VIX to be much higher, and in fact, we thought it would be higher than the NIX. The RIAS only takes 30 minutes AND DD6 is highly distractable, too. Believe it or not, the NIX of 121 was enough to qualify her for gifted services, along with her 99th percentile achievement test results, writing samples, and teacher ratings. I think there must be more to that story than I'm seeing from the school scores.

Thoughts on the RIAS? I really know nothing about it, and I can't find much info out there.

Has anyone had discrepancies between school and private test scores? I just don't have much faith in the system.

Last edited by pinkpanther; 03/05/08 02:00 PM. Reason: wrong VIX score reported