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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child scored &gt;99.9% very superior with FSIQ of 152 in WISC IV. His GBRS is low at 10. what are chances on appeal?

Overall, he gets bored in the regular class and gets annoyed by repeating subjects. I want him to excel and get out of the boredom mode[b], I am afraid his teacher has ruined it for him though with the low GBRS ratings[/b]! [/quote]

His one teacher didn't ruin it for him. The GBRS is developed through a committee including the AART, the teacher, an administrator and possibly another teacher all looking at work samples, asking a lot of questions and sharing observations. I've sat on several of these committees. They're pretty intense, and I can assure you that it's not the teacher just sitting there spitting out a number. [/quote]

Being familiar with the process,  do you think he might have a chance on appeal? He is a very smart boy with all full grades all the time. But he is more on the shy side of things, I talked to his teacher after we received the denial and she recommended to do the WISC test. For other posters who implied my child was prepped: we got the denial letter beginning of May and he took the test two weeks later so there wasn't time to prep. So, I don't even know how the prep would have helped since he told me the questions were all about reasoning/verbal comprehension/ memory speed (remembering numbers up to 9 digits and be able to repeat back in reverse), making complex block diagram after looking at the image for seconds, talking about a subject, etc... anyway, I guess my patience is being tested for the next couple of weeks!  [/quote]

You are absolutely right PP, there is no way anyone can prep for WISC and get scores even close to your DC's scores. I can see high FxAT scores being affected by prepping, but WISC scores cannot be prepped to this level. So, I am still asking the same question, hoping for an answer that makes sense: How can a child do so well on all tests and still get a low GBRS? And how isn't that a failure of the school and/or the teacher? And please, let's not mention prepping again, it doesn't work with individualized tests like WISC.[/quote]

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