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Hi, my 8 yo was having problems at school.

His wisc iv results are:
Vci 130 percentile rank 98
Pri 121 percentile rank 95
Wmi 130 percentile rank 98
Psi 94 percentile rank 34.

Full scale iq 125 (note on report says this may be not accurate because of discrepancy between psi index and other indices)

What does this mean? How bright is my child?

The lower PSI may relate to the problems he's having in school, and the high scores on VCI/PRI also might related to problems if he's bored and not challenged. Can you tell us a little bit more about what prompted the testing, what types of problems he's had at school, and also, if you have the subtest scores, it would be helpful for us to see them too.

And yes, FSIQ usually isn't considered accurate when there is as large a discrepancy as reported between PSI and VCI/PRI.. but there is another number called the "GAI" (Global Ability Index) which is made up of *only* the PRI/VCI and which is often used to qualify 2e kiddos for gifted programs. If a GAI wasn't calculated, I'd ask the person who did the testing to calculate it for you. I don't know that it would be much different than the FSIQ, but I"m guessing it would be at least a little bit higher.

polarbear

Hi,

My son is having problems socially. Last year he was not invited to one birthday party. He has a reputation for being a naughty child, and is generally on average academically which his teachers say is an underachievement for him.

He is disruptive and makes funny sounds all the time like humming or tapping his foot.

The psych said he made noises like this when the tests were easy and stopped when the tests got harder.

VCI sub tests:
Similarities score 17
Vocab 17
Comprehension 15
PRI sub tests:
Block design 16
pic concepts 11 (psych said he was looking for complex answers and taking longer on this test and not answering the simple obvious answer and suggested this score was wrong)
Matrix reasoning 16
WMI sub tests:
Digit span 18
letter number sequence 15
arithmetic 13
PSI sub tests:
coding 9
symbol search 9 (these tests were administered last and he was getting bored. Again he was looking for complex answers and not giving the simple answers which were obvious.

The psych said he would need more testing to give an overall IQ score, and that it wd probable be a bit higher.

High IQ runs in my family, but so does mental illness. this could be linked to violent home life for my parent/aunts/uncles.

I'm worried abt my son.