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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If psychologists tested the entire population of students who score at or above the 80th percentile rank on the SAT, the majority of the students would come out with at least one processing area that was lower than the others since most people have a profile of strengths and weaknesses. An articulate psychologist can then write that up justifying extra time.

If your Verbal IQ, Fluid Reasoning, and Visual Spatial ability are above the 80th percentile rank, you have 
a higher chance of having lower processing speed (and it is 2 different 2 minute tests - so 4 minutes in total) due to regression toward the mean and the fact that processing speed does not correlate as strongly into overall intelligence. So someone could sneeze, be cautious, double check their work and their processing speed goes down- but that is good for extra time on the SAT. 
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Having more than 2 standard deviations between strengths and weaknesses on the WISC is unusual.  Having more than 3 standard deviations is very rare.  This is what people are talking about when they say "lower processing speed".
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