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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I think your child stands a god shot but none of us know. I wouldn't pop the champagne. I have no dog in this fight, my child got in on group tests. We didn't do an IQ test and I'm not appealing, but 
I will say this thread took me down a rabbit hole on the proposition that gifted children don't always do well on group tests. I found this fascinating from Hoagies.

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Consider the difference between group and individual tests.  In a group test, the questions are written and fixed, and designed for the average person to answer.  This might be no problem for an average student, or even a moderately gifted student, but the gifted student sometimes reads more into the questions than intended.  For example, let's say the test asked which one of these did not belong, and offered three fruits and a vegetable.  Most students would pick the vegetable.  But say that 3 of the 4 names of the items, including the vegetable, were 6 letters long, and one of the fruits had a 5 letter name.  Then which one should the gifted child pick?  To further complicate the situation, 3 of the 4 are grown in sub-tropical climates outside the U.S., while one fruit grows in the cold northwest.  Now which should the gifted child pick as the "odd one out?"  While this isn't a real test question, it is not unusual for gifted kids to struggle with the seemingly simple questions on a group intelligence test, because they see so many more options and details than the average child.  And on that group test, when the child gives an "unusual" answer, the tester is not there to prompt, "Why did you choose that?" or "Which one do you think the average student would select?"

Consider also the difference in distractions in a group situation.  The student next to you finishes first, and you aren't even on the last page yet - you panic.  Or you've finished the whole test before the rest of the class.  Or the proctor is walking around, or turning pages, or snoring.  There's a class on the playground outside the window... or a plane... or a beautiful spring day.  The scratching of the other kids' pencils is loud and distracting.  And while it is true that all the kids taking the test are exposed to the same distractions, consider...  The nature of the gifted child is that she takes in knowledge at a faster rate than her peers.  But it is not just knowledge - she takes in everything faster, deeper, with more feeling.  Even her senses deliver data to her brain faster - hearing, touch, sight.  Those classroom distractions are more distracting to her than they are to her classmates.

For all these reasons, group tests tend to underestimate the gifted, more than the average child.[/quote]

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