Welcome Chris!
I often think that it easier to see the math side than the verbal. When a 3 year old is doing simpe algebraic equations etc. you can see that something is going on. The same for drawing
Verbal can be harder since I think I at least often just accept that DS is verbalizing his stories in a way I would expect not anything that screams advanced to me. It took a few different tests to get me to accept that DS is gifted but we will probably never know to what degree since he is 2E. His highest scores are Verbal with Math close behind. Short term memory and processing speed really pulled down a couple of the math subsets.
If your school is like ours, they test all children in 3rd grade with a group test then break it out to those needing individual tests. Even though my son is already in the gifted program, he took the test with his class since they didn't want to single out the gifted program children. They just didn't redo the individual test part and the scores did not impact his participation in the gifted program. In fact I still don't have those results lol.
