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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your child is in second grade and you are already convinced they are gifted enough and driven enough that they [i]need[/i] to skip three years of math, that the typical path for acceleration [i]definitely[/i] won't meet their needs. It is a [i]tragedy[/i] they did not score high enough to prove this, an injustice, no, the [i]test[/i] must be wrong! I'm sure you will tell us all about how [i]they[/i] are pushing for this, the child is just super self motivated and ravenous to do more and more advanced math and you are only trying to support their passion.

140 is a hard cap. The county doesn't budge on it even with teacher recommendations. Your kid does not need to skip three years of math. I promise.[/quote]

That's not true.  If OP's kid meets the SOL requirement and the teacher strongly feels like the kid should be skipped ahead, they can administer additional tests.  It should be easy to appeal one's way in with a perfect score on the CogAT Q, even if the norming made the score below the threshold level.  OP still needs to wait until the end of 4th grade to see whether to pursue an additional skip in math.

Also, OP, which score was the 139?  CogAT should provide 3 differently normed scores.  One is age adjusted.  One is grade normed.  One is locally normed.  The one you want is the age adjusted one, which should be marked as the SAS.  I'm still finding it hard to believe that a perfect Q section could result in a sub 140 score for a non redshirted child.  My kid (april birthday) had all of the problems correct and got a 149 several years ago.  [/quote]

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