My son is in eighth grade. He was doing quite well in the fall, scoring 273 for reading, but in the spring he scored 257 for reading. As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with him, and he has been reading just as much as he used to and has been writing a whole lot more. My only concern is that he tends to read more stories online than in print. I wonder if that could possibly have affected his scores. His test-taking technique (according to him) was just as usual. Is there any conceivable solution to this problem?