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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If no improvement after months of tutoring, I would have the kid stop and work with the test scores they have.  Three attempts is plenty.

Curious why it is [b]not ok in family dynamics [/b]for one kid to be better at school and other to be better in standardized tests?  Doesn’t the standardized test kid get to be better at something?[/quote]

It doesn't come from us.  The twins compare themselves with everything. The amount of money they made last summer, the miles they drove when getting their drivers' licenses, the ice cream sandwiches they ate last week...

Twins are an exceedingly interesting dynamic.  Their entire world (teachers, friends, neighbors, their pediatrician) compares them to each other constantly.  As parents you fight against this from the minute they're born when the nurses make comments on who is longer and who weighs more.  The kids internalize this when it's all they hear for years. As parents you spend their entire lives trying to make people see them as individuals.

It's entirely different with our other kids (we have 2 more).  They don't compare things to each other or their siblings.  [/quote]

I'm also a twin mom and I am facing a similar discrepancy in testing, even though it's not as big of a discrepancy as yours.  I don't know why everyone's saying it's too late to get tested for ADD or anxiety and get special accommodation IF you feel that that's the case here.  If not, I think in my shoes I would reach out to a different tutor - there are ones that focus on test anxiety.[/quote]

People are saying it is too late bc it takes time to get the testing and reporting done.  And after that diagnosis is received you have to submit it with other paperwork to College Board and ask for an accommodation.  They do that on a set schedule, I think the due date is in January.  And after the due date it takes a couple months for the accommodation letter to come.  That will be the end of senior year for this student.[/quote]

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