Originally Posted by aculady
With a 2E kid myself, how I look at this is that the high number is real - it shows the minimum that your kiddo can do on a good day when everything lines up for them - real ability might even be higher.

Even if a child is in equally good test-taking form for each test, there are random errors in test scores, which argues for averaging the scores, unless you have strong reason to believe that one set of scores is unrepresentative.

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell