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Hello, I'm new here! I just took my five year old to get tested (wppsi) I'm waiting for the written test results but what she went over in her office three of her scores were 98.9 and 99.9% except for processing speed which she said is normal for gifted children. does this mean that she hit the ceiling of the test in some areas?

Hi! I think that once you see her subtest scores you can deduce (knowing that and her age) whether she hit the ceiling on some of the subtests. You'd have to look this up (or just ask the tester), but I _think_ 19's mean she hit the ceiling on that subtest.

I'm no expert but I think you need to see the raw score to know about ceilings. I believe in some categories you can get 17, 18 or 19 and still be considered 99. And you can always ask to see if she qualified for extended scoring.

DeHe

My DD did the WPPSI at 4y9m, she had a 17 which was a hard ceiling (confirmed by the tester), it was a substitute test because she spoiled another one and for some reason already at 4.5yrs that was the highest she could score. She completed the entire subtests with no errors and no penalties and the tester commented in front of us that she had never seen that before, which was why I questioned the 17.

She also had some 17s and 18s that were "Soft" ceilings - she ran out of test without reaching the stopping criteria, but she made silly errors early on that reduced her score despite reaching the end of the test getting the harder part correct.

thank you everyone! this is all very new to me. these are her scores

Verbal Scale:
Information - 18
Vocabulary - 16
Word Reasoning - 17

Performance Scale:
Block Design - 17
Matrix Reasoning - 14
Picture Completion - 16

Processing Speed:
Symbol Search - 13
Coding -14

Verbal IQ Score - 143 (99.8th Percentile)
Performance IQ Score - 135 (99th Percentile)
Processing Speed IQ Score -119 (90th Percentile)
Full Scale IQ Score - 142 (99.7th Percentile)

I'm sorry what does bump mean?

It's just what people post on a message board if they don't have anything to add but want to help you get your thread "bumped" back to the front page so others can respond.