My son took SCATs in 3rd grade (I think - it's all getting foggy now)
He finished, with only a few questions wrong, in about half the allotted time. I had drifted over to another part of the building to chat up the folks at Sylvan Learning center who shared a reception room.
Let's just say that someone was upset with me. So a word to the wise: bring what you need to keep yourself entertained and pee first.
Not all kids are this fast, even if they do well, but my son, who hates timed experiences, and I usually call a 'slow, deep thinker' suprised me.
((red face))
Grinity
BTW - the test didn't lead to a grade skip at the school, but it did help me start to believe in 'LOG.' When we first joined 'YSP' I was still in the kind of Gifted Denial were I believed my kid was (of course) gifted, but was rejecting the idea that it could have such a far reaching effect on every minute of his life. I was rejecting the idea that 'Gifted = Special Educational NEEDS' because I had bought the idea from my own expereience that 'gifted kids can take care of themselves' and internalized that if I had failed in way, it was my own fault. Nice, eh?
Getting in to YSP made a 'provisional impression' but I wasn't sure that I could trust it. I had never met another family in the YSP, afterall. But seeing that my son scored a full Standard Deviation above the other 'Gifted Kids' who participated in the talent search made quite an impression on me. It gave me gooseflesh to think of it like that.
Good thing that he did well on that test, or I my Gifted Denial would have had a field day.
Love and More Love,
Grinity
