The area he had more difficulty with on testing and IRL is also somewhat reflective of social reasoning/social perception skills, and might have some relationship to his history of ASD diagnosis. I should also note that children on the spectrum often don't test well until they're a bit older, and have had a chance to become more knowledgeable about the social conventions of testing. (I've had a few students whose testing continued to rise from preschool all the way through the last year of high school.)
