My son took the SCAT three times (age 7 and 8) because he didn't qualify in math and wanted to take a science course. He qualified in language each time, but his scores on both tests were all over the place, once getting 70th percentile (or something, I don't remember the actual cutoffs), once 96th and so on. It made me very skeptical of the value of the tests and whether they actually measure anything significant. He wanted to do a camp near his grandmother, so he wanted to qualify, but I don't think much of the whole thing if you don't intend to do the programs.
BTW, he also was more concerned with not finishing, so whipped through the math and didn't use the scratch paper and was intimidated by the MCAT students - all that is in play as well.
