Originally Posted by Dottie
And achievement testing at that age is almost always going to be "inflated". Take that with a grain of salt. Obviously, a 4 year old that is reading and doing simple math IS a bright child, and very possibly a highly gifted one. But again, scores will probably drop in time, especially if the child is given an outlandish score of 186 1:200,000,000), crazy . (Scores this high are fairly common for example in 3 year old kids that can read!)


Holy cow, I will be the first to admit that I would freak out if DS had a score of 186...even if they told me it was inflated. I guess the good news from this is that if it is really high, I can just tell myself it was inflated to deal with it better.