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It is more impressive that your DS was an 11 year-old 7th grader. At the same time, Loy58 made a valid point regarding actual academics/exposure partly counterbalancing the difference, which may be another reason why there are no age norms. Anyhow, I second using the 6th grade norms as an approximate proxy since those norms include many 11 year-olds as the majority of 7th graders are 11 in the fall and many are still 11 in the spring. Obviously, your DS will still be at the young end of those norms but that will be relatively close data. The norms don't separate students who take the test in October versus those who take it in June also because ultimately there isn't a huge enough of a difference, especially at the top.

I am not familiar with Duke Tip or ACT but in examining NUMATS CTD and SAT, here's what I see when I look at the minimum award qualifying scores and higher scores: 7th graders need a minimum of 740 Math and 670 CR (verbal) to qualify for awards, which is 98.3 percentile Math and 99.1 percentile CR for 7th grade compared to 99.2 percentile Math and 99.7 percentile CR for 6th grade with these same scores. If you look at higher scores of 770 Math and 730 CR, the percentile differences between 7th and 6th graders shrink substantially: 99.3 percentile vs. 99.8 percentile for Math and 99.8 percentile vs. 99.9 percentile for CR (verbal). That's a long way of saying that at very high levels of achievement scores, small differences in age perhaps matters less?