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Wait until you get the report. Then you can look at the numbers and see what it all means. It could be a scoring error. There could be cause for extended norms that weren't used, or a substitution was made for some reason unexpectedly.

I know what it is like getting numbers that don't match up and it is so frustrating! We ended up testing again about a year and a half later and the numbers matched a lot more with what we were seeing to day.

Also, good advice to consider explore or possibly even just achievement with portfolio.

Our psychologist recommended we do the same - she suggested testing again in two years.

I talked to the psychologist about my concerns and she double checked a few things to make sure it was as accurate as she could be and it went up a couple points to 138 which is at least closer to what I'd expected.

The WIAT was a totally different ball of wax though. She said she's eat her hat if he didn't get qualifying scores on it. She also said Wolf scored in 9th grade in some math area!!! That honestly blew me away. I mean he's 7 for crying out loud! But at the same time him taking 8th grade history doesn't phase me... I guess it's different to hear it from a psychologist.

Still, no amount of good driving will make a Ford Escort perform like a Ferrari in the hands of an average driver, and Richard Feynman's brain was a Lear Jet. Or something.

ETA: I seem to have run afoul of a spam filter. Still, I doubt this would perform like a Ferrari in the hands of an average driver either, or for that matter in the hands of Albert Einstein. :|

My DD scored about in that range (admittedly, she took a half-hour IQ test and one subtest was much lower than the others) and is performing more in the Ferrari range, even in a gifted magnet school where all the kids met a pretty high cutoff. Either the test wasn't accurate (yet I don't think anything went really wrong with the test except maybe that subtest) or the tests don't give us the full picture. That said, I don't think she is PG...but her personality seems to turbocharge her, or something.

He is turning eight next month and math isn't a weak subject for him. He doesn't really have any real weak areas other than handwriting which is acceptable for his age and spelling which he is decently good at; he just hates it. He's doing EPGY math 20 min sessions three times a week during the school year (this gets him through a bit over a grade level per school year). He has been doing it once a week during summer and is working at about mid 5th grade level right now I think.

We were very surprised that DS seemed not very good at math. Then i casually mentioned that you need to understand math to understsnd science and suddenly DS 6 was totally into it, and we got him books about math which put it into his preferred area of interest - like the murderous maths.

I was reading about this gifted school in CT which teaches trig by doing navigation since that's why it was invented. Maybe you need to get his interest by coming from another angle - after all worksheets and stuff are boring, so who wouldn't hate it even though he's good at it!

DeHe

I never said he didn't like math. It's spelling he hates. He enjoys math; it's just not to the passion level that the history of sunken ships is.

Just some perspective, a GE of 9th grade in math is equivalent to knowing some basic "solve for x" type of prealgebra. It says more about average 9th graders than it does about the younger kid who got the score. If he has mastered the fifth grade EPGY material that he has been exposed to, then it doesn't surprise me at all that he had a GE of 9 in math. Average high school students don't do well at all on math tests. It's truly frightening.

Oops, sorry, totally missed the spelling part! Clearly not on the board for my skills! LOL!

DeHe