Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment WPPSI-III hit ceiling, retest? Help, please

I'm just here for a second, JBD.

If memory serves, DS7 was 6y8mo when he took the WISC. He was totally into the testing. Had great fun with it and with the tester.

But then again, he was also tested by the school on a group IQ and the WJ-III achievement at 5.5-ish yo, and he was highly cooperative then, too, from all indications. <shrug>

I suspect this has more to do with personality than age. If DS7 is into what he's doing and being challenged, he's a laser (assuming he's had enough sleep and enough to eat). He always has been, even as an infant. So I'll bet we could have given him the WISC younger than 6 and had good results if we'd been so inclined. That's not the norm for most kids though! So I don't know how helpful our situation really is to the discussion...