I've got a smart and maybe/maybe not gifted 7 year old who was devastated to not make the cut-off for her school's gate program, which she wanted to be in like her older HG sister. The main part of the entrance rubric is the OLSAT. She missed the qualifying score by 3 points-- she needed one standard deviation for her grade, where 559 is average, 592 is 1SD, and 625 is 2SD.
I need to decide whether or not to ask her to be retested, and one of the things that will influence my decision is "how much" she missed the cut-off by. My instinct is that 3 points is pretty close and could have been a bad day, but I'm not sure because I don't know much about the test. Does anyone who knows more about this test have an opinion? (And no, I don't have a score report for her.)
