Dottie is our resident expert, so I will defer to her substantially superior score-interpreting abilities.
The one thing I will toss out there is that the usefulness of the test results could be seriously compromised by a tester not used to working with GT kids. If they stop too early, or don't know what to tell a kid to get cooperation, or start the test at too easy a level and bore the kid, or...the results may not tell you much.
If it helps (and it may not!), here are my thumbnail ways to tell if your child is GT:
*If you feel in your "mom gut" that your child learns differently than other kids.
*If you can't tell people things that your child does because they won't believe you or they'll feel bad about their own kids because of comparisons with yours.
*If the books with the milestones in them for kids didn't seem to work for your child; he was ahead.
*If people seem surprised by what comes out of his mouth in public because he "sounds like a little adult."
*If he loves to learn, begging for math problems at bedtime or studying books as if his life depended on them.
*If he experiences extremes of emotion, concentration, thought, physicality, humor, need for alone time/need for time to be social. Extremes. Exhausting extremes!
*If people think you're pushing your child to study, when you feel like you're hanging on as he pulls you along.
If any of these are true for you, then there's a good chance that you have a GT kid on your hands.
Tests--even in the hands of a skilled tester of GT kids--are just one indicator of GTness. Please don't underestimate your view of your child. Moms are usually right, provided they're being honest with themselves. (Most are.)
Welcome, and I hope you get the help you need here!
