Remember that it's one test on one day. The NWEA is designed to continue as long as the child can. At some point, kids get tired. If they didn't increase her beginning level when she started the test, she'd have had to travel through all the material she'd previously covered just to get to the new stuff.

Shari
Mom to DS 10, DS 11, DS 13
Ability doesn't make us, Choices do!