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I am trying to understand my kindergarten child's early reading skills score on the WIAT -III. The results were 94th percentile score and a 123 standard score when she got all of the answers correct on this test. (Raw score of 34 out of 34). Doesn't a 94th percentile indicate that 6% of the children in the normative sample performed better on this test than my child? How is this possible when she got all of the answers correct?

It means that 94 percent of children performed lower than she did. 6 percent of students performed the same or better than she did. She reached the ceiling of the test, but so did 6 percent of students in the norm group.

Thanks for your help. She needed to score at the 98-99th percentile in order to qualify for a gifted program that she was being considered for. What would she have to have done differently in order to have qualified in the area of reading?