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[quote=Anonymous]I just came across this forum. We received info from DD's (2nd grader) school that she is not eligible for GT.
She was in the GT screening pool and her scores were 116(NNAT), CogAT (Verbal - 116, Quantitative - 119, Non-verbal - 147, Composite - 133).
I went and got her screening packet from school and saw that her GBRS rating was low (11), the comments were all good - leader, creative thinker etc etc. I am thinking this is why she didn't get in eventhough I wrote up a good case for her on the optional Parent/Guardian questionnaire along with work samples.
I did get an appt for the WISC-IV at GMU but don't know whether to put her through the test and whether its worthwhile to do an appeal since the GBRS will still be considered or wait for a CogAT retest in 3rd grade.

I wanted to add something - my child along with some of her classmates were moved to a new class with a more experienced teacher (this is a new FCPS school). After talking with some other parents of kids who were in the GT screening pool in the same class(with great scores), I was able to find out that none of them qualified. Most had a low GBRS. I hadn't put any effort in building a "great" relation with the new classteacher or AART this year so I guess that's what showed in the GBRS score (inferred from a poster's comments earlier). Some of the kids in the previous class who didn't have good scores did qualify for the GT center admission.[/quote]

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