DD actually did better on the CPT than DS, even though DD has more obvious/severe ADHD. She scored in the average range but in a noisy, chaotic classroom she is like a space cadet. I don't think there is any perfect test, you just kind of have to weigh the evidence. I'm still not sure if DS has ADHD or not, because people talk about poor focus, but I don't notice the same sort of distractability at home. So it's hard to say what is causing the focus issues, it could be any number of things. He claims that in math, for instance, he is so excited to be there and talk to the older kids. To the teacher, though, it might look like ADHD.
Thanks for sharing blackcat. I did wonder about the CPT as it is a computer based tasked that DS had never been exposed to before, and in novel situations he can be quite focused, especially if it is something he has never seen before and it is on a computer screen!
