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Your daughter's score differential IS unusual, OP. What did the psychologist say? Was she tested by the same psychologist or psych office? Each psychologist tests children in their own idiosyncratic way, even though they all follow testing procedures. Another possibility is that either one or the other of these tests could have been administered wrong. 
Was your daughter medicated while taking the second test? I mention this because of the processing speed delta. This screams inattentive ADHD to me, and I wonder if she was under meds for ADHD the second time around.

True facts:
1. IQ scores can and do vary during an individual's life, even by that much, and sometimes more!
2. The WISC-IV and WISC-V are not directly comparable.

IQ scores are extremely valuable tools to study human brain development in health, trauma and illness, but there are limits to its usefulness in education, hence it's somewhat controversial use to select students for private and magnet schools, as well as special education settings.

Don't worry too much. Just make sure she's challenged appropriately and see if you can identify persistent weaknesses that she can work on. For example, if the psychologist noticed she didn't so well in visual-spatial reasoning, you can introduce her to some origami!

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