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    We are looking to relocate, and the school we would like to send DS 4 to requires the SB-V, and WIAT. My first question is how likely is it that he will score 145 on the SB, if his FSIQ was 139 on the WPPSI. I think we are talking 99.9 percentile for the SB, where he scored 99.5 percentile on the WPPSI. His performance IQ was a full 20 points different than his verbal, so the woman at the school seemed to think that he would do better on the SB. I cannot find anything to back this up. smile


    Also, how is the WIAT in comparison to the WJ-III? I think they are looking for 99.9 there too. My son, who was almost 4 at the time of testing had to be normed as a first grader because he was beyond the norms for K scoring, so I'm guessing he could pull off the 99.9 on that. My main concern is the SB-V.


    One last question, when would you test? We are needing the testing for fall 2012 school entrance.


    Thank you!


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    Amber, I'm just bumping this for you since you've not gotten any responses. My suspicion as to why no one is chiming in is that we just don't know. It is so individual. I've seen kids do well on one IQ test and not another, well on both, etc.

    I guess that, if someone were going to guess, they'd need some idea of how his scores played out on the WPPSI beyond just the FSIQ. The SB doesn't have the timed aspect of some on the Weschler tests. I'm less familiar with the WPPSI than the WISC, though, and timed may not be as big of a deal on that one. If timed aspects decreased his score, that may be a plus for the SB.

    If he has a better visual short term memory than auditory short term memory, again he may be a bit better on the SB than a Weschler test or worse on the SB if his auditory memory is the better of the two.

    If his WPPSI strengths leaned toward visual spatial and not so much the verbal areas, that would again support the possibility that he might do better on the SB. The SB has a reputation of being better for mathy kids b/c it doesn't have such a huge verbal section but does have quantitative and visual spatial sections. The Weschler tests, save for the adult version, do not have quantitative subtests other than an optional arithmetic section in working memory on the WISC and that isn't really a true math ability test.

    Overall, this is all maybes and mights, though. You won't know until you test. He could come out with a FSIQ of 120 or 150 and neither would be surprising. Preschool IQ tests are fraught with uncertainty and I don't think that any of us can say that it is likely that a child who scored in the 99.5th percentile is likely to repeat or better that performance when retested on another test later. None of us can say with certainty that he won't, though, either.

    In terms of when to test, the SB-V also has a reputation anecdotally of scoring higher the younger the child, so I might do so sooner rather than later if I really needed a super high score and was more concerned about that than anything else.

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    That helps tremendously, thank you! I'll look into getting him tested ASAP.


    He is a verbal kid, so that may work against us. I'll keep you posted!


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