momto2ms - my DD did the WPPSI III at 4yrs 9mths. She "soft" ceilinged 3 sub tests (information, vocab, word reasoning) exactly as cricket described - by making silly mistakes along the way, or giving half answers (she doesn't like to talk to strangers) but she reached the end of the test before hitting her actual limit of ability.
She had Object assembly substituted for Matrix Reasoning, which the psych declared spoiled as she was tired and difficult at the end of the 1st session (it was done painfully slowly over two sessions). She hit the hard ceiling on that one, but the maximum score for her age was 17, not 19.
And then she did two repetitions of each coding item, refused to do anymore and watched the timer for the last half of the test. She scored a perfect 10 - in half the available time. It is possible that she chose to stop because she finds visual motor skills hard, because she does struggle in this area. None the less her score reflects what she could do in half the time, she was not told she needed to do as much as possible or as fast as possible, just how to do the task, it was clear to me that she felt she had demonstrated mastery (she did have 100% accuracy in what she did).
Six months later she was retested by a gifted specialist using the SB5, who was a) able to engage her and b) fast and snappy. her VIQ didn't go up much (2 points I think?) but everything else came into line and so she had a FSIQ 8 points higher, more even all around and more useful portrait of her in general.
Her WPPSI scores were very similar to your DDs:
Word Reasoning 16
Information 17
Vocabulary 17
Block Design 17
Picture Concepts 13
Picture Completion 13
Object Assembly 17
Coding 10
Last edited by MumOfThree; 02/28/12 07:30 PM.
