[/quote]The neuropsych made the following comments worth noting: "He also presented with slow mental processing capabilities, and it took him over 20 minutes to complete 26 arithmetic items. Noteworthy in his presentation is that he had a tendency to overintellectualize things, especially on verbal tasks. This had the effect of lowering some of his scores, as he would offer overly-elaborated responses to questions that require a fairly simple or straightforward response, such as, "How are red and blue alike?" or "What is the definition of the word obey?" [quote]
My DS at just turned 6 also "overintellectualized" his answers but there are methods to deal with this. Was there anything in the answer that provided the simple answer or asking a follow up to the question which I gather they are allowed to do. I don't know much about the scoring but for some reason my DS wasn't penalized as much on the WISC as on the SB5 for doing that, I think on the SB5 you had to get the easy ones right to get the scores regardless of getting the hard ones but my sense is he didn't have to do that on the WISC, but I could be wrong. On both tests he answered the hard ones much more readily and correctly. But both our testers were very familiar with gifted kids.
Sorry it's been so frustrating for you!
DeHe
