KJP I suspect that for younger children the processing speed tests like coding are more impacted by intellect than motor skills, the older the child gets the less its about thinking/understanding and the more they are competing with their age peers visual/motor skills. At 4.5 my DD score a perfectly average 10 on coding - but she put he pencil down exactly halfway through the available time. She's NOT fast and has a major handwriting issue that was unaddressed at that time. But, for a 4yr old she had an excellent grasp of what was required and was efficient mentally. She did each operation exactly twice with 100% accuracy and then stopped.
Edited to add: at the time we thought she was being contrary due to the mindnumbingly boring nature of the test. Retrospectively she was probably in pain.
Last edited by MumOfThree; 10/07/13 02:51 AM.
