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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know if theres a way of getting more data about what your kid got right/wrong?  I don't actually care about her going to the school, but I am concerned that the scores don't reflect what her teachers have always said about her performance.   I'm worried there's something going on other than just disappointing scores, and would like more data.  [/quote]
I could have written this post. Comparing my dd's scores with some other people , I'm surprised how much lower they are than other people and how far from the median. I never expected her to get in but I also didn't expect her to be this far from the median either based on her classroom work.

Granted, she said she didn't finish the test so I would like to know how many questions she did answer and the percentage of those she got correct. Was she just bad at time management (we did no prep) or are there other issues?[/quote]

But you do know that the median they are talking about is the median score of kids accepted to the center, right? Not the median of all kids who took the test. Your kid can be way above average and still below the median of the kids accepted to the center.[/quote]
Yes, I knew that. Based on her classroom work I was expecting her to be a little bit closer to the median. One of the tests, she was 5 points below the median.  Another of the tests, she was about 37 points below the median. Based on her work in the classroom in that subject, I was shocked she was *that* far off of the median of the hgc kids.[/quote]

She may have just had an off day, gotten to that section last and was tired or just unfamiliar with the format so made a few more mistakes. With those scores she is still above average even in this area[/quote]

Did they give the test in the order that it's reported -- verbal; quantitative; nonverbal?  My kids scores fell off significantly with each, which is weird because she is super good at puzzles, patterns and things like that, so I really thought the nonverbal would be her area of strength.  We never did any prep, so maybe it was lack of familiarity (I had no idea people did prep!).  But if the issue is that she doesn't have the stamina to get through the test, I'd really like to know that.[/quote]

Nonverbal seems to be mostly visual-spatial, and it is the most irrelevant to elementary school academics. Depending on what you mean by patterns, it may or may not mean the same thing. If you are really worried, why don't you find a sample CoGaT test and let her do some of the nonverbal section and then you can evaluate whether she has a visual-spatial deficit. I know I do. I could not do mechanical drawing to save my life. [/quote]

Seriously, people? Visual-spatial defect? Stamina issue? That test is LONG. It is one day of testing with a variety of factors that may have influenced your child's score. Was your child tired? Hungry? Anxious that mommy and daddy would be disappointed if they didn't get into the HGC? The score is not some indicator of how successful your child will be in life. There is no reason to suspect any kind of disability because your child didn't score off the charts. Get a grip. [/quote]

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