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OP, maybe your kid is some sort of stealth genius.  You should sign her up for the SAT.  Also, have her join the math team or science olympiad team.  If she starts knocking things out of the park, then you'll know more about her capabilities. [b] If she doesn't - and she likely won't-[/b] then you can relax and appreciate that you have a very bright, high-achieving, normal child.  [/quote]

Why "likely won't"?[/quote]

I'm the first PP.  I would say "likely won't" simply because most parents have a grossly inflated view of their child's aptitudes. [b] Maybe you're one of those rare parents who has downplayed her child's abilities, but in this area, that would make you a unicorn[/b].

I'm also having a hard time imagining a child who is at the 1/1000+ level, but not showing much beyond good grades in honors classes and some test scores.  By 9th grade, I would expect some sort of significant achievement, or at the very least, a few teachers who have made a huge deal about your child being the brightest they've ever taught or way beyond the norm.  [/quote]

Ok, I have downplayed her abilities because I realize that many people would find my original question to be rather nauseating, and I didn't want to rattle of a list of examples that come across as bragging.  Really I was trying to find out more about the meaning of the score itself, but since a number of posters seem to be rather intent on trying to tell me that my daughter probably really isn't all that smart, well here goes...Not only has she always earned A's throughout school, she has rarely gotten anything less than a 100 on any assignment, and generally that's without any studying at all.  If she does study, it's a quick glance at her notes before she takes a test.  She has scored 600s on every SOL test she's ever taken, when she took the test for middle school math to be placed two years ahead (which I don't think our county would place a kid any higher than that, unless a parent really pushed for it), she got the highest score of any of the incoming sixth graders in her school (and her school does have a lot of UMC, high achieving kids).  Since preschool, basically every parent teacher conference has started out with the teacher saying "You're daughter is very smart."   Also whenever she tries anything new, she excels in it.  One example is with music.  She never took any music lessons as a kid, about six months ago she asked for guitar lessons.  Since then she has taken off with it.  Her instructor says that she is at the same level as some of her students who have been playing for four years, and she really doesn't spend that much time practicing.   I realize that none of this is evidence that she is an actual 1 in a million genius, like I tried to explain earlier, I was being sort of tongue in cheek when I used that word earlier.  But I do think this goes beyond the level of what the "typical" gifted kids are performing at.  Especially since we have done very little to develop her abilities. [/quote]

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