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We got DD's WPPSI-III(and other testing)results yesterday. The tester mentioned that for almost all of the 1st 3 questions for each subtest, DD wouldn't answer them. She would say "I don't know". One of the examples he gave me was, "name the colors of a rainbow". Well, of course DD knows that! But as soon as the harder questions began, she would answer those with no problem. He said because of having to count the easy questions incorrect, it really brought her score down. Do they really count those incorrect if the child goes on to get harder questions correct?

My son's tester said the same thing about him. He missed the easy questions but as they got harder, he tuned in and got the hardest ones right. But those missed easy ones counts against him. I consider his scores a floor rather than a ceiling just b/c of the odd way he tests. I think this was from being unchallenged in school and had already started tuning out in school. I think this really impacted his BLock Design score which is the example the psych from. He got the ones correct that kids on up to highschool have trouble with but missing the easy ones lowered his score to a 16 for that subtest.

Just a quick note-

Please do not share standardized test questions! If parents start taking notes, it can skew the data on future tests.

thank you!