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Hi,

I this is my first post here, but I have been on this forum for a while as a lurker. This forum has been a wealth of information for me so thanks to all Anyway, I have a question and was hoping someone could help me. My dd10 has been on what our district calls a goal plan as they do not have a gifted program until 5th grade. The acceptance to this program is a rubric one of the qualifiers is the Terra Nova Inveiw test. I just received my dd's scores and there is no numerical score, only a percentile. She scored in the 98th percentile overall with some sections as high as the 99th. Do the teachers have multiple reports that have a numerical score because it is my understanding they need a minimum of a 120 to qualify for the program. Maybe I am confused on which test is the qualifier, but I am almost positive that is what she told me at conferences. TIA for any help understanding her scores.

Often, a score of 120 refers to a standard score, which has a mean of 100, and, usually, a standard deviation of 15, so that 120 is +1.3 SD, or the 91st %ile (thus, above the 90th %ile). The 98th %ile would be about 130.