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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no guaranteed score, as it is possible to even game a WISC.  The test becomes unreliable if taken multiple times in a short period.  But, I have seen people do that.  They go for multiple tests until the score improves to the 132 number.  For some, the cost of the WISC is not significant.

If you go to different providers, the retaking may not be known....

On the down side, a low energy day can result in a lower score, even on the WISC.  
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The long term observations are important and are harder to game.[/b]   [/quote]
It depends.  2nd grade teachers are poor at identifying gifted behavior.  Often, pretty handwriting, organization, and compliance sway the teacher more than actual gifted traits.  My highly gifted kid got horrible scores in the motivation to succeed category.  Once, the teacher was working on 2 digit addition, and my kid independently was teaching himself the addition and subtraction rules for numbers in binary.  The teacher was upset that DS didn't follow her lesson.  Another time, she was upset that he was reluctant to read the magic treehouse book she wanted him to read.  He read it in K and was currently reading Percy Jackson.  The teacher actually gave negative comments on the GBRS form that he wasn't motivated to learn.  A few years later, that same "unmotivated" kid is spending hours per day in his summer teaching himself geometry and learning scratch.   Most 2nd grade teachers are [b]far[/b] from being gifted, themselves.  They wouldn't know giftedness if it bit them on the a**

Also, many completely average upper middle class kids will appear advanced in 2nd grade from all of the enrichment they receive.

No system is perfect, but testing is at this point the least biased and least easy to game.  Or at least, the people who can afford to game the WISC are going to find a way to game any system FCPS creates.[/quote]

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