Have you had a chance to look at the exact type of questions that were used for each subtest?
Your question led to a really interesting discussion (this is why I love reading things on this board!). I talked to my son, and asked what he thought - I told him he did well, but I was curious what he thought of the types of questions. I had looked up samples, but I saw questions of the type I had seen him do on some gifted math online programs very successfully. He said, "well, when I get those types of problems, I always solve them with scrap paper- either by folding it or drawing images. When I build things, I try to draw 3-dimensional models first" (and I've seen these, which is another reason I thought he was very "spatial"). Turns out, they weren't allowed any scrap paper at all, and he said he is so used to solving these questions a certain way that he had trouble thinking of a different way.
Since my main concern was whether this boded poorly for Geometry, I feel a lot better. Even if he isn't naturally good at this (and I still somewhat think he is), if he can solve problems like this with pencil and paper, I'm happy.
Thanks for your note- I think it prompted me to just ask him directly and that turned out to be very informative!
