I wouldn't say it was informative, we already strongly believed he'd be a good candidate for acceleration. It did bring up some points that we thought the school would see differently and provided us a tool for discussing those. There are some things- like the section that talks about motivation- that actually gave him more "points" than I would have thought. He's not an eager child who begs for more work. But he happily does whatever is presented and that scored him one less than the max points. I was pleasantly surprised to see this.
It turned out to be unnecessary for us. We had scheduled a big meeting with the teacher, the principal, the district psychologist etc. In the meeting, his teacher actually (unknown in advance to us) began advocating heavily for a mid-year skip. We sat there a bit dumbfounded, with a large pile of research unused, and listened to everyone agree with her. We just kind of smiled, nodded and started trying to hammer out the details of the when and who.
