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Hi. This might be a better forum to ask this. My dd then 9 took the OLSAT in October for Identification of gifted in her public school.

We are looking to admit her early in September as a sixth grader at a very good six to twelve private this fall. Their admission test is the Olsat.

So, can you take that test twice on one year? How likely are they to use the results of her forth grade test. Is the test different for different grade? Since she would be skipping fifth, will they giver her an OLSAT that the sixth graders take? how would that be scored since I believe the OLSAT is age normed.

One more thing. She only go 93 percent on the test! Way lower than I would have expected. I privately had her take the WJIII in third grade and she scored overall 99.6. She is very bored. She was reading at three, crawling at four months and is obviously just very smart.
So I guess what I'm asking is. With that lowish OLSAT score, 93, and if the school chooses to not retest, are those scores too low for most people to accept an early entrence. She is smart, popular, tall, mature and just too fast at everything yo enjoy her regular forth grade classroom.

Any ideas on the OLSAT?

Ask the school. They're the only ones who could possibly know what they'll do.

At the higher ends of IQ and OLSAT, OLSAT scores aren't well-correlated with IQ. (So if you take the kids who score above some percentile on the OLSAT, and give them a full IQ test, the highest-scoring kids on the OLSAT won't be the highest-scoring kids on the IQ test, and vice versa.)

OLSAT E is the 4th-5th grade version; F is the 6-8th grade version. I'd be surprised if they tested rising 6th graders using F, rather than E, but the school is the only one who'd be able to answer that.