@Cricket, I learnt now that this Cogat was a level up- designed for third graders and likes. Not sure how local stanine is calculated though- does it include only 2nd graders who appear for a level up test or does it include third graders as well.
I guess, I have been thinking too much about this score thing. I must admit, that a part of me was wishing that we should have prepared him and he would have had better chance. We have not been working with DS academically since last few years as when we used to do acads (not much though, just exposing him to new stuff every now and then) he was jumping ahead by leaps and bounds and it was scaring me specially, so we hardly do anything other than the regular reading and the small discussion afterwards so I get sense of what he is reading and he gets the sense that I am interested in his learning. I don't know if we are doing justice to him as he enjoys reading, math, science, history, all kinds of books and materials. But over the time, we have been spending our energy to have him develop different interests other than academics as we know he would come to it if he enjoys it.
I am not sure if he'll qualify for the gifted program or not as I am yet to hear back but I am trying to prepare myself either way. I need to have a backup plan. I don't want him to be bored at school or become careless just because the stuff they are teaching is too easy for him.
