Dottie,
Your earlier post did answer my question - thanks so much. I searched the archives for a couple of hours last night because I knew there was a post that explained the different kinds of ceilings!
So I guess he felt he was answering my question.
He already told us that her score will be around 140. I was just trying to figure out if she hit any ceilings.
Apparently since most kids score lower with the SB5, that's a solid HG+ score. The whole point of this test was to see if she qualifies for the "I-still-can't-believe-this-perfect-school-exists" school for exceptionally gifted students. It's even reasonably priced (because it's part of a nearby public school system). The psych believes that her score will qualify her to continue with the application process, so we're very happy with the test results. Of course, if she gets in there will be a whole new set of challenges - DD8 doesn't want to switch schools and we'd have to drive her there and back (we both work full time and already have to drive our DD3 to preschool). But it would be a nice problem to have, right? Choices are always a good thing!
I'm still processing the rest of what the test tells us about her. For example, her 2 best areas are fluid reasoning and quantitative reasoning (we already knew she was gifted in math). He said that the part of fluid reasoning that she is best at is the analogies and verbal absurdities. I'm wondering what that really means she's good at in the real world. And the subtest she scored 19 on from her prior WASI test was non-verbal visual spatial, but on this one, he projected her scaled score at 16 or 17. Of course her lowest score (125) was in working memory.
Also, he gave me info. about what each subtest measures. He explained working memory as holding something in your memory and being able to manipulate it. For example, he would tap on some blocks in a pattern and tell her to watch him. Then instead of asking her to repeat his pattern, he would ask her to do something else that required her to use the info. about the pattern he used. Very interesting.
I assume you all know this type of stuff already, but if I'm wrong and you want more details, let me know.
I love this board. What a difference this has all been since finding you guys!
