Cogat score - no letter for pool?

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean: "Pool letters are being sent from schools the week of January 13 to families of students in the 2nd grade screening pool. Students who are not in the 2nd grade pool will not be notified. Test results from fall administration of the CogAT are expected to reach families via mail from the local school by the end of January."


If we don't get scores this week, we are not in pool?

Anyone from Vienna Elementary or Cunningham Park get anything this week?

Same question, did Chesterbrook ES send scores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does this mean: "Pool letters are being sent from schools the week of January 13 to families of students in the 2nd grade screening pool. Students who are not in the 2nd grade pool will not be notified. Test results from fall administration of the CogAT are expected to reach families via mail from the local school by the end of January."


If we don't get scores this week, we are not in pool?

Anyone from Vienna Elementary or Cunningham Park get anything this week?

If you don't get a pool letter this week, you're not in the pool. Everybody will get scores by the end of the month either way.

Don't sweat it. It's not college admission, truly. Your child can have a successful life even if you don't get a letter this week.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean: "Pool letters are being sent from schools the week of January 13 to families of students in the 2nd grade screening pool. Students who are not in the 2nd grade pool will not be notified. Test results from fall administration of the CogAT are expected to reach families via mail from the local school by the end of January."


If we don't get scores this week, we are not in pool?

Anyone from Vienna Elementary or Cunningham Park get anything this week?

If you don't get a pool letter this week, you're not in the pool. Everybody will get scores by the end of the month either way.

Don't sweat it. It's not college admission, truly. Your child can have a successful life even if you don't get a letter this week.

I for one am not sweating it in reality, but I am super curious. But our kid has no business being in AAP even if she qualified. She is way too high strung and would be a disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:I for one am not sweating it in reality, but I am super curious. But our kid has no business being in AAP even if she qualified. She is way too high strung and would be a disaster.

I'm curious - what makes you say that? My DD is pretty intense and I find AAP a good fit for her. She's in 5th grade now. Her AAP teachers have all seemed better equipped to deal with her "big emotions" than the Gen Ed teachers did. I feel like she's found her tribe.

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My son missed NNAT by 1 point, had a low CogAt but that was the year it was not age-normed and he is VERY young. I ended up parent referring him with a 99.8% WISC...he is in

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Anonymous wrote:I for one am not sweating it in reality, but I am super curious. But our kid has no business being in AAP even if she qualified. She is way too high strung and would be a disaster.

I'm curious - what makes you say that? My DD is pretty intense and I find AAP a good fit for her. She's in 5th grade now. Her AAP teachers have all seemed better equipped to deal with her "big emotions" than the Gen Ed teachers did. I feel like she's found her tribe.

She hates failure or the perception of failure, hates not being perfect at everything. She is very hard on herself.

I am not saying I am trying to avoid these things for her, but I can see meltdowns in her future if she didn't excel at what was supposed to be a special opportunity.

She scored super high on the NNAT, so qualifies per those scores, I guess, I don't know how it works. She is incredibly smart, but her personality, I don't see it. Maybe in time, but not yet, I don't think.


Nonetheless, I am curious about her scores and eligibility even though we don't plan on doing anything with it. I just like to know! I am big child.

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean: "Pool letters are being sent from schools the week of January 13 to families of students in the 2nd grade screening pool. Students who are not in the 2nd grade pool will not be notified. Test results from fall administration of the CogAT are expected to reach families via mail from the local school by the end of January."


If we don't get scores this week, we are not in pool?

Anyone from Vienna Elementary or Cunningham Park get anything this week?

Basically parents of kids who are in pool and are automatically considered get notified two weeks before parents who have to do something in order for their kids to be considered. I wouldn't be surprised if the scores for those not in pool aren't sent out until a few days before the referral deadline. I would just write up a parent referral just in case you get the scores at the last minute and they are good enough that you think referring is a good idea. That way it doesn't matter if FCPS does what it always does and sends the scores out at the last minute.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I for one am not sweating it in reality, but I am super curious. But our kid has no business being in AAP even if she qualified. She is way too high strung and would be a disaster.

I'm curious - what makes you say that? My DD is pretty intense and I find AAP a good fit for her. She's in 5th grade now. Her AAP teachers have all seemed better equipped to deal with her "big emotions" than the Gen Ed teachers did. I feel like she's found her tribe.

She hates failure or the perception of failure, hates not being perfect at everything. She is very hard on herself.

I am not saying I am trying to avoid these things for her, but I can see meltdowns in her future if she didn't excel at what was supposed to be a special opportunity.

She scored super high on the NNAT, so qualifies per those scores, I guess, I don't know how it works. She is incredibly smart, but her personality, I don't see it. Maybe in time, but not yet, I don't think.


Nonetheless, I am curious about her scores and eligibility even though we don't plan on doing anything with it. I just like to know! I am big child.

Perfectionism and fear of failure is super common in gifted kids. I think it's better to expose them to challenging material at a young age so that they learn to how to deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone from Vienna Elementary or Cunningham Park get anything this week?

Vienna ES sent theirs out yesterday, so they should arrive by Friday.

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Scores should be sent regardless. My daughter brought scores home today in her Tuesday folder. I began to read them and about had a heart attack. The scores were way lower than expected. Turns out the student who passed out the Tuesday folder packets gave her the packet of a classmate! Regardless, this child was not in pool, but still got scores.

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We got scores but no pool letter or guidance. Very confusing.

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All 2nd graders at our school received scores at the same time, through US mail. Those in the pool received a letter from the principal (in the same envelope as the scores).

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You should get a pool letter if your child scored 132 on either the first grade Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) or the **composite** score of the second grade Cognitive Abilities Test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All 2nd graders at our school received scores at the same time, through US mail. Those in the pool received a letter from the principal (in the same envelope as the scores).

Which school?

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Anonymous wrote:If the scored came alone, should we assume ds is not at the benchmark? He has verbal of 134. Any word on benchmarks for this year?

What was the composite? That is the number in bold that determines who is pool eligible. 132 or higher gets in pool.

Composite was low- a shock. We didn't prep and ds was pulled out for a reading groups during the practice test for the last 2 sections. In past years sometimes they've used one of the three so I was hopeful. Nnat was 97 %. This kid hasn't had anything lower than a 4 in any subject his primary teacher teaches and is in reading and math pullouts.

Sounds like a bright, but not gifted kid. He'll do find in regular classes and find plenty of kids just like him. Don't stress it.