Originally Posted by whitebackatcha
The test was the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. It is not in any way meant to test for giftedness. It was given as a part of a research study, and the tester gave the results in a year/month format.

They could just as easily have given you a percentile score, or a "same scale as a full-blown IQ test" score. I don't have a conversion chart, but I've administered the PPVT for psych research studies, and the scoring conversion was part of the post-administration process.