Yeah, he was taller at nine than dd12 is at 12, although she's getting awfully close to 4'8" - lol! Her school PE teacher deemed her height and weight "not proficient" when they measured and weighed them all at the start of the year.
I do imagine that having the test not count for anything in terms of college admissions, etc. might make for greater confidence in the young kids vs. the high school teens. I must admit, though, that dd14 came out of her first talent search testing at 9 (Explore) crying. She's kind of an anxious person and I think that it was the first test she'd ever taken where she didn't know everything easily and it spooked her. She did a lot better than she thought she would, though, despite leaving during the test repeatedly to go to the bathroom and recompose herself.
