Anonymous wrote:Be grateful. The examiner spared your child from having a very low score reported in the WISC.

They're not allowed to explain the section or let the kid ask questions beyond the standard script and practice questions for that section. They always stop after a specified number of incorrect answers.

My kid didn't understand one of the optional sections and scored in the 5th percentile. The examiner flat out said that he could tell that my kid didn't understand the instructions. His FSIQ was 140+. They still included the horrible score in the score report. That's generally what they do.

Yup, this.

Do not continue to ask if the test was valid, OP. Just quietly move along...

I wish this happened for my child.

Anonymous wrote:Be grateful. The examiner spared your child from having a very low score reported in the WISC.

They're not allowed to explain the section or let the kid ask questions beyond the standard script and practice questions for that section. They always stop after a specified number of incorrect answers.

My kid didn't understand one of the optional sections and scored in the 5th percentile. The examiner flat out said that he could tell that my kid didn't understand the instructions. His FSIQ was 140+. They still included the horrible score in the score report. That's generally what they do.

This is helpful context, thank you.

Be grateful. The examiner spared your child from having a very low score reported in the WISC.

They're not allowed to explain the section or let the kid ask questions beyond the standard script and practice questions for that section. They always stop after a specified number of incorrect answers.

My kid didn't understand one of the optional sections and scored in the 5th percentile. The examiner flat out said that he could tell that my kid didn't understand the instructions. His FSIQ was 140+. They still included the horrible score in the score report. That's generally what they do.

Well, this is odd. My child recently took the WISC-V through GMU so that we can apply for AAP placement (child is in private school now). A grad student conducted the assessment. During the debrief with the tester, he informed me that my child apparently "didn't understand" one part of the exam and that he stopped halfway through and, instead of explaining it or letting my child ask other questions, then chose an "alternate activity." As such, there is no subscore for that particular area of the WISC, but the tester assured me it did not impact the overall score.

I find this strange and feel as though I got incomplete testing results. I'm sure a single subscore isn't going to make or break the application, but if I paid for a comprehensive test, I do believe we are entitled to complete results so that the AAP panel has all the information needed to make an educated decision.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? If so, what did you do? I know that having a child take the WISC-V more than once in a year is frowned upon, but now I'm questioning whether these results are even valid.