I, honestly, suspect that my older dd's scores were "deflated," to put it that way. She had a horrible first grade year with a teacher who yelled at her and everyone else constantly and made them do unbelievable amounts of rote memorization and repetition. We finally pulled her out and homeschooled the end part of the year when I approached the teacher with dd in tow to request that she stop keeping dd in for every recess to finish work & she got down in dd's face and yelled at her, "you're just lazy! That's you're problem!"
Coming off that year and how slowly she was working, we assumed that she just wasn't very bright and was going to be a C student whose teachers needed to stop expecting so much of her. After having someone suggest to me that she was gifted, I did some reading on giftedness & it was like someone had sat down to write an essay on dd. So, we had her tested part of the way through 2nd grade coming off that bad year.
She flat out refused to complete the block design test on the PRI index & got an 8 (25th percentile) on that part. The other two tests in PRI were a 19 (99.9) & somewhere in the mid to upper teens (also in the 90s). She also froze up on the PSI index and came out at the 42nd percentile. I don't think that she is particularly fast so much as deep, but I also think that any pressure to work fast shut her down.
Her FSIQ was in the upper 120s and her GAI was 132/98th percentile. Across the board, dd performs higher than that in terms of achievement. Her Explore scores in 4th grade were close to the cut-off for DYS. Her SRI lexile (reading score) was near 1500 at age 10 (18+grade level), her MAPS scores are in the 97th-99th percentile (the 97th is in math -- her weaker area), etc. She skipped a grade last year &, with already being younger with a fall bd, started 6th grade before her 10th bd. She still tested advanced on all of the CSAP (state NCLB tests), and in the upper 90s on tests like SRI & MAPS.
She seems to be a late bloomer of sorts & becomes more obviously gifted as she gets older. She didn't particularly stand out as amazing to me in preschool & her preschool teacher never said anything to me about her being unusual. She did start reading at 4, talking at 6 months, and some things in hindsight that were probably a bit advanced, but I never would have thought "gifted." At this point, though, she seems much more gifted than 132.
