She did qualify for GT because of a lower threshold at her school. Kids qualify for gifted services with 85% (verbal or qualitative and non verbal based on CogAT), plus there is a matrix that incorporates parent and teacher recommendations as well.
I know she was the #1 ranked student in 1st Grade, but have not received rankings for 2nd Grade yet.
On the 1st Grade CogAT, there may have been two contributing factors to the lower score. The teacher had told me that she was only allowed to read each question once (the kids did not have a copy of the questions�only the answers) and if the child was not paying attention when she was reading, they would miss the question. The second factor was that my DD5 was always placed sitting next to behavioral problem children because she would do what she was supposed to be doing instead of joining in with the problem kids.
