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I realize that in my last post I've talked in generalities, while you certainly want to know how her cognitive profile will translate into specific learning strengths and weaknesses. I think that your daughter will excel in areas where sequential processing is required and where all the connections are clear and struggle more where she has to synthesize information herself for it to make sense. Thus I think she would enjoy learning basic scientific concepts and would be good in basic math reasoning. She may be a little weaker when she has to do an independent project or write a research paper or a long essay or a creative story because these tasks require independently figuring out how to break an assignment into small pieces and then doing each step. She might be the person who needs to outline everything in order to do a good job while others may produce organized work without outlines. Also History, which while it seems factual, requires independent synthesizing of information to make sense as otherwise it's too broad might be more difficult. Really complicated literature might also be more difficult. And in the gifted classroom with students with higher Coding (short-term memory/learning of new information), it may be that the others memorize information on the whim and on the spot, while she has to put some amount of conscious effort to memorize new information. However, if she truly knows and understands something, it's there for good. Overall, she will probably rely on abstract reasoning for all her learning.