I'm not sure how reliable IQ is, b/c my kid got a lower score each time it was taken, in 1st, 3rd and 5th grades. I also find that sometimes iReady or MAP scores bounce around, better one season worse the next, and better again. However, I want to say, they *can* improve, my kid who had 23rd percentile reading scores for YEARS just got 49th percentile in reading in 7th grade. Woot! That would be 'overachieving' both the last two IQ scores, and on par for the 1st grade IQ score. (shrug emojo)

Anonymous wrote:What even is IQ?

My kids each excel in different things. One is a math prodigy but is failing English and subjective subjects and the other is a teachers pet and does well with people and anything where there isn’t a clear correct answer.

If I had to bet, my social butterfly is going to have the easier life and higher paying job

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What even is IQ?

My kids each excel in different things. One is a math prodigy but is failing English and subjective subjects and the other is a teachers pet and does well with people and anything where there isn’t a clear correct answer.

If I had to bet, my social butterfly is going to have the easier life and higher paying job

Is there a way to help kids to improve their test taking abilities. I still do not think my child completely understands the mechanisms of these standardized test questions. Also having viewed a number of types of questions online, a lot seem quite abstract for age level. TIA.

As a special education teacher, I see kids take standardized tests online, and so much of it depends on how careful they are, if they take the time to reread, and if they are internally or externally distracted. Kids take so many tests now that they just want to get it over with. So a lot of it depends on the child’s personality and attitude towards testing. Multiple choice tests make it easy to just click and move on, and I’ve watched kids accidentally click an answer and they can’t go back to fix it in some tests. Or they will click and answer hastily and hit submit, and then say out loud “Oh, it said which one is NOT true!” but it’s too late.

I have 3 kids. My super high IQ kid gets sky high test scores (maxes out iReady placement in math year after year). My other two have similar IQs and very different test scores (one is a bit above IQ and 1 is substantially lower), likely because one is less more careful than the other & constantly pseudo-guesses. If I could redesign the test so it wasn’t multiple choice, that alone would help him. So I think it really depends on the kid and their issues, but obviously there is some correlation.

Personally my higher is kid has lower test scores than my average iq kid

IQ can be very high and standardized tests can score at the monkey range.

For those with LD DCs--- Does anyone see a clear link between DCs IQ (GAI) and how the percentile for regular standardized tests? This seems to track pretty closely for our DC and wondering how common this is. Both his IQ and end of year standardized tests typically are in the 45-50% range.