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This is just anecdotal data and not some sort of official information.

I referred my son in K for gifted testing. Here they screen with KBIT with a specific cut off for further testing. He misses cut off by one point. Guidance counselor tells me that tons of kids she screens in K miss it by one and are rescreened either the next year or in a few years and the same kids pass the screen and with further testing, test gifted. Other kids are initially referred in first and pass the screening no problem. Her opinion was that the cut off score for K wasn't valid. My son was eventually tested in first grade on two different instruments and tested profoundly gifted on one and highly gifted on the other. You can't tell me that he just suddenly became gifted in first grade. So I have never been a fan of the KBIT's usage as a screener in our county....if the guidance counselor saw the problem with the cut off year after year and saw those same kids qualify later on, something needed to be done.