The test ceiling actually goes to 300 in some cases! Remember the GE ceiling is beyond high school. While I'm certainly not downplaying any reading abilities here, my point was also that I've met some of these kids whose reading skills truly blow me away. Those are the kids pulling the 200+ scores. They are incredibily gifted by anyone's standards, but it's still not statistically possible to top 180 or so, kwim? But they can't compare to my son's 99.9th score that's more "down to earth", even if we both have kids in that top 0.1%!
I agree. I am sure there are amazing kids. I've read about some of them and they do take my breath away with their reading abilities. I wanted to say that with the changes it probably takes a lot to achieve such a score. It's not just knowing how to read a little bit and being 4. KWIM?
Either way it would probably make much more sense if the test stopped at 4-5SD with scores 160+ or 175+. Oh perhaps they should use DYS kids as a testing sample and come up with some meaningful numbers. LOL.
