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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Appeal got rejected, and spent the last week or so trying not to wonder why and be bummed out.

Then this week, we unexpectedly received a letter from the school inviting my kid to Advanced Math in the fall. Makes me feel a bit better that my kid didn't fall completely through the cracks. Might try again next year.

For reference:
rising 3rd grader (in screening pool)
NNAT 160
Cogat 144
WISC 131 
GBRS half Cs half Os (I'm guessing this is the main reason for the rejection)

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The Occasionally Observes are a huge issue and the declining test scores. The WISC is high, I don't care what anyone says 97/98th percentile is high. But it does not hit the magic 132, which was the gold standard for a while, and the fact that the test scores for the NNAT and CogAT and then the WISC diminish is probably a flag to the Committee.

Your best bet is going to be working on the skills that were reviewed as Occassionally Observed with your child. I would not include the WISC if you apply again, it does not help your case.[/quote]

DP.  The WISC and the NNAT and Cogat are on different scales.  A 130 on the WISC is the same as a 132 on the NNAT and Cogat.[/quote]

I get that. The NNAT and CogAT are different types of tests meant to be a proxy for the WISC. That doesn't change that the child started with a 160 on the NNAT and went to a 144 on the CogAT which is still higher then a 131 on the WISC.  [b]I am not able to say what the tells me about this child and their abilities but I would expect that most kids, in an ideal world, are going to be relativity close in scores.[/b] There is a decent gap in score from test to test. I would not be surprised to see a gap between then NNAT and the CogAT, based on the test differences and the way kids mature. I would not expect that type of a gap between the CogAT and the WISC. The fact that the WISC is 13 points lower then the CogAT does not help the PPs case.

They can submit an application and not include the WISC which should help. But, they really need to work with their kid on the areas that they got an Occassionally Observed. [/quote]

The tests don't correlate in that way.  I would expect similar scores on NNAT, CogAT NV, and WISC VSI and/or FRI.  I would also expect somewhat similar scores on CogAT V and WISC VCI.  And I would expect somewhat similar scores on CogAT Q and WISC FRI.  Neither the WMI nor PSI on WISC correlate to anything on NNAT or CogAT.

PP might have a distribution of scores that looks weird and inconsistent.  Or the scores might make perfect sense if you look at individual sub scores.  My kid was kind of the opposite of PP's.  Mid 120s on NNAT, but 140s on WISC and CogAT.  My kid's NNAT was in line with the CogAT NV and the WISC VSI scores, even if the overall NNAT was significantly lower than the other tests.  [/quote]

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