Hi, I am new to this and very confused about the different IQ scores that are out there. My DS4 (will be 4 next week)is currently in PreK. He got accelerated after they did the PreK readiness test on him. He didn't meet the cutoff agewise.
He is extremely advanced. Reads at a 4th grade level and does math at a 1-2nd grade level. PreK obviously isn't doing anything for him academically but at least his classmates are a bit closer to his level when it comes to maturity.
We are now looking into what to do with him for next year and I am going to go speak with the person in charge of the gifted public school program next week. I know from reading that the gifted program tailors to ANY gifted child that qualifies and the cutoff here is 120 IQ. I also know that just because there is a gifted program doesn't mean it will be enough for my DS. From the reading I have done, our pediatricians observation, a gifted student teachers evaluation we all seem to agree that he is probably in the exceptionally gifted range.
So, to my question...what is the deal with IQ tests?? I have been reading about scores being in the 170's for the exceptionally gifted but then I will read that it is a score of 140?? 120 IQ doesn't sound like it is very high and should be considered "gifted". At least not when you compare to some information when they talk about 140 being the beginning of the gifted range. Is this because of the new and old tests and that the results vary? What do the schools go by? I am very confused and would like this cleared up before I go in and meet with this lady next week.
Thank you in advance for any help solving this "mystery"...:-)
Annie
