Have they told you she cannot get into the program if her test scores are below the gifted range? Look at it this way, if she has a bad day (i.e. distracted, being a kid) and her test scores are below gifted, the school doesn't have to see the results.
Bottom line, you know her best and what she's capable of.
Best of luck
True. And regardless of the results she will take the district's screening tool for the gifted program (the Cogat) in the fall so there is the possibility she could qualify with the Cogat. I don't know what the cutoff is, they aren't specific. It's a combo of test results, teacher recommendations, questionnaires filled out by parents, etc... that they use to decide.
I guess my biggest worry is that if she finds the testing boring that she will not do well. We had her do a study for fun back in February at a local university. She had to look at a series of faces (very small, black and white head shots) and then they would show her another series of head shots and she had to let them know which ones she had seen in the previous series. She did fine for about the first 10 min, selecting the right yes and no answers. But after that she obviously lost interest and started immediately pushing the same 'yes' button over, and over, and over. She didn't even pause to reflect. The tester even stopped to clarify and reread the instructions to her to make sure she understood, to which she said yes, she did understand the directions. But at that point I could tell she was over it and didn't care anymore. I hope the wisc testing will be more interesting for her and she will actually try.
