Received DD's Explore results and now we are sort of confused. Overall we are extremely proud of her considering this was the first time she has taken any type of test like this (she hadn't even done any standardized testing at school yet) and she is only in 3rd grade. She was the only 3rd grader at our test site and she was a bit nervous about not knowing anyone else and being in an unfamiliar place.
Here are her scores
English - 14
Math - 13
Reading - 12
Science - 15
What has us confused is - reading was her lowest score and we really anticipated that to be her highest. She reads at least 3+ years above grade level with great comprehension. Reading was even lower than her math score. She is above grade level in math, but not near where she is with reading - and math hasn't really been her thing (not that her math test score was high by any great means, but just higher than reading).
Anyone have any thoughts why a child who has always seemed to be obviously advanced in reading would not do well on the reading portion of the Explore? She didn't have much to say after the test other than she answered all the questions and had time to spare to go back and recheck. She felt she did okay. I had previously mentioned in a post that I was concerned she would spend more time looking around the testing room at whatever was on the wall, etc. than she would working on the test, so that may be part of what happened.
