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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ACT and SAT were brought up in the context of Davidson Young Scholars and a few talent searches.  The point of DYS and some of the talent search programs is to identify kids who are so far beyond their peers that their needs can't be met in public school without some significant advocacy.   They don't require a strict 145 IQ to get in, nor are they suggesting that high ACT or SAT scores imply a 145+ IQ.  They're just using different avenues to identify kids who are well beyond the norm.  
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Kids who take the SAT or ACT in middle school and score above the 95th percentile of college bound seniors would fit this category.  Kids who score a 160 NNAT would not.[/b]  The NNAT is too narrow of a test with too low of a ceiling and too much of an over-representation of high scores to draw conclusions about the educational needs for that child.  [/quote]

My guess is that a kid who scored a 160 on the NNAT would score in the 95th percentile on the SAT in middle school.  [/quote]

The NNAT measure non verbal reasoning which is the least important domain in school. The SAT has nothing to do with nonverbal reasoning. The middle school kids who do well on the SAT are naturally gifted in language and have taken math through Algebra II either in school because they’ve been recognized as needing acceleration or on their own.

A 160 on the NNAT only tells you a kid did well on those type of puzzles. Which is amazing by itself. Just not predictive of anything more. [/quote]

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