I was really too much in shock to ask the tester many questions. I stammered a few comments that I didn't understand how he can *seem* gifted but that low a score. She said he was simply a high achiever and must work really hard. She pointed out that his verbal scores are above average and that verbal kids can sometimes appear brighter than they really are.

If his score was 120ish, then I could accept the idea that he's just a bright kid with a weird knack for math. But I just can't bring myself to accept a 98/104. I just can't get over all those 7s and 8s!

I listed his raw scores at the bottom of this message (listed in the order they are listed on the report).

I have no idea about the tester. I simply made dozens of phone calls and went with the cheapest price I could find: $300. She told me the test took 1.5 hours; it took about 1.75 hours because he took a couple of breaks. She has a doctorate degree and assured me she was very familiar with all the IQ tests. I requested the WISC-IV and she said no problem. As you saw in my previous post there *was* a problem with her getting the test, but it did resolve itself.

My plan for DYS consideration was to submit the WISC-IV scores with a portfolio for his achievement. Now I think perhaps I should do the opposite. Thanks for the suggestions on tests. I think we'll go that route. Perhaps his achievement tests will be high enough that the WISC-IV scores will simply appear invalid.

These tests are expensive, and we're not a high-income family! My husband is a carpenter, and I don't yet make any salary off the small "university-style" private school that I started a couple years ago. If my kids went to public school our income is such that they'd qualify for reduced-price lunch.

Okay... here are the scores printed in the report. There are no other numbers listed:

Block Design: raw=28, scaled=11
Similarities: 26, 14
Digit Span: 11, 7
Picture Concepts: 13, 8
Coding: 21, 12
Vocabulary: 19, 7
Letter-Number Seq: 14, 10
Matrix Reasoning: 14, 8
Comprehension: 19, 11
Symbol Search: 13, 7
(Picture Completion): 16, 7
(Cancellation): 44, 7
(Information): 12, 8
(Arithmetic): 19, 10
(Word Reasoning): 11, 9

Sum of scaled scores: 35+27+17+19=98
FSIQ: 98
GAI: 104