...in my experience, boys typically come out more confident than girls, regardless of the final scores...
That's interesting. Dd#1, when she took the EXPLORE in 4th, came out crying, told me she didn't know anything on the test and kept leaving to go cry in the bathroom during the reading part b/c it was so hard. I truly expected her to have come out with a bunch of 10s. She got an 18 on science and a 20 on english. Her reading and math scores were lower than that which made the composite lower, but overall she did a lot better than how she portrayed it.
