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Are there any other changes in his life style or health? Sometimes certain meds can depress scores. Others can help the scores a bit such as stims for an attention difficulty. Also, scores for younger kids are a bit less reliable than for older kids as they are still developing cognitively.

The pattern of relative strength has remained the same and this is an important piece of data. Did the same person administer the tests? Was it over one or two sessions? Was he feeling poorly during the first session?

It seems there must be some variable that contributed to the large difference.

What about when the pattern of strengths does not remain consistent? Other than in the VCI component, my dd's strengths and weaknesses were completely different from one testing to the next. She has similar ups and down on achievement tests. At times, she is very strong in language arts areas, at times her math achievement scores are higher. I'd generally say that math tracks consistently somewhat higher than LA though.