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[quote=Anonymous]PP here:  another way to look at it that there are two facts to consider with GBRS and testing:  1) GBRS are subjective, and 2) there are ways (questionably ethical) to prep for the NNAT and CoGAT.  With that said, test strategies and prep can possibly increase the scores 20-30 points.

Presumably, the committee knows both of these.  So, ideally, there will be gifted GBRS and good test scores (say 12 and 130).  A student with lower GBRS (7) and 120 -130 NNAT test scores, like 10:56, would signal a child that might have been prepped...the numbers are out of whack.  The 152 tell the committee that the child is smart...3-4 standard deviations above mean, but is probably having issues in class.

You turn it around, say around 120 on the tests, but 14-16 GBRS, the same questions might exist, but the high GBRS child would probably not be disruptive in class even if they don't belong.  That is just a guess.

For truth in advertising, I was a child that would have had a low GBRS...how low?  I do not know.  But I would test off the charts.  I was bored out of my mind.

My DD did not test as well as I think she should have...did not make the pool with scores around 120.  We got a WISC IV as part of the referral package, and her scores were consistent with the in school tests.    I talked to the AART after that, with the plan to not parental refer.  She strongly encouraged me to refer, so I followed her advice.  She ended up with a GBRS of 15, and was accepted starting last fall.  She is doing fine....Mostly O's on the report card.

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