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[quote=Anonymous]DS score: 
NNAT - 160 
COGAT - 143 
Submitted multiple awards and recognitions he got outside school .
Excellent review by his teacher who keeps stressing that his thinking is beyond grade level in MAth, science, social studies and behavior. 
We obtained screening file. This year they have not done GBRS rating.
Rejected

DS has been extremely advanced in Math, science, social studies and history. His samples that we submitted was extremely difficult for what a normal 2nd grader would do. DS had always been identified as a gifted till Grade 1. Grade 2 has been extremely boring for him and his school samples that were given were draw something and write a creative explanation. DS is very high in factual and inferring reasoning, and his drawing abilities and thinking imaginatively is not that good. When I ask him to think beyond his normal imagination he says his mind tells him whether it is possible or not and he gets back to factual way of thinking and inferring (more data, memory, facts based approach).

His school samples that were submitted were extremely poor in nature where he was asked to think and write a creative story. But his home sample were real life questions where he used science and math (whatever he knew) to answer. The comparison happened on a home sample which was extremely advanced science/math and school sample which was an imaginative story writing which is not DS’s strength.

His teacher believes he is gifted in science math social studies and factual based reasoning.

We are getting his WISC tests, giving more factual based samples he made in school, to prove his knowledge and attention to details and his inferring and thinking skills.

We are at a loss as to what to do for this gifted child. He says school is super boring and they always wants him to draw pictures and write stories.

DS runs a YouTube channel for experiments, he composed his music (different tunes), performs (singing) in multiple languages. He has got awards like young scientist award, outstanding student award in karate, musician award. We had submitted all this and still got rejected. AART teacher thinks they think home samples are at a level that cannot be done by a 2nd grader. All his other home samples are at the same level. I really don’t know how to convince that he is exceptionally talented. Hoping for a good WISC score.

Any help from anyone in this situation would be apprceiated[/quote]

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