Hmmm I may have just found a clue:
"My child’s verbal score was much lower than the non-verbal score on the OLSAT.
One key factor to remember about the OLSAT is that instructions for questions can be given once and only once. If a child happened not to be listening when the question was given or was distracted for even a part of it, the tester would not repeat the question. If the child specifically asked for a question to be repeated, the tester still would not be allowed to repeat the question. This gives the child a slim chance of answering an item correctly, given that he/she has not heard all or even part of the question. Additionally, the rule of giving the questions only once affects the verbal portion more significantly than the non-verbal portion of the OLSAT. On non-verbal subtests, the layout of the questions does not change, and the task does not change from item to item. For example, once a child knows what to do with a picture analogy item, he/she knows what to do for all picture analogy items after that. For the verbal subtests, however, each question is novel and specific to the images presented. Therefore, the child must be paying complete attention to each word that is uttered for every single verbal item in order to have a chance at answering correctly."
My DS can not just be told something once and rememeber it long enough to maipulate it to solve a problem - he needs to be able to go back and a few times to the info...
Now I totally see why this would happen
