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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the years my kid's percentiles have been as high 99th (and 95th and 92nd) and as low as 60th and 67th.

Are these wild swings normal? [/quote]
Something similar happens with one of my kids.   Percentages from high 70s to 97.   He has ADHD though so never know if there are outside distractions or just having a bad day. [/quote]

My DD wasn’t diagnosed with inattentive ADHD until 9th, but over the years her scores on standardized tests were pretty wild.

Reading was fairly consistent because it’s her biggest strength, but we’d still see anything from 99th percentile to 91st on MAP testing, and math anywhere from one 68th to some 97th and 98ths. But rarely did her scores track in any kind of smooth curve.

Same with PARCC scores. Because the tests were on different days, sometimes in different rooms, one year she’d have a 5 in math and a 3 in ELA, the next a 2 in math and a 5 in ELA. She pretty much bombed the math COGAT in 5th (for her), in the low 80s, I think, but still managed to get into a Humanities magnet on the strength of her verbal and nonverbal sections, and her recent high math MAP scores that kind of balanced out the bad COGAT. She’d also done well on the math COGAT in 3rd, but I’m not sure whether the evaluators could see that score.

Now that she’s older and more able to articulate her issues, she says that the tiniest thing could distract her during testing. Itchy socks, the testing room smelled funny, kid next to her had a nose whistle, or she was even a little bit tired, and it would all fall apart. Even on the “good” days, she’d just blaze through the questions, knowing she’d eventually lose focus as the test went on, even without distractions.

This spring, the first MAP she’s ever taken while on meds, she scored in the 99th percentile for reading and 98th for math. This is definitely more in line with the results of the IQ testing they did as part of her neuropsych exam when she was tested for ADHD. So we’re hoping these solid scores on meds bode well for APs, IBs, and SATs, because she didn’t qualify for 504 accommodations this year, even before meds.

In retrospect, I feel like somebody along the way should have probably spotted the pattern (or lack of one), but I suspect it just kind of slipped past because she was always working above grade level, even on the ones she “bombed,” and managed to scrape into gifted programs because of her strong reading scores. I guess it was all relative. [/quote]

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