Is a non verbal reasoning score of 118 good? Very confused!

[Virgil]

DS2 is five and in year one. We have been given a non verbal reasoning score of 118 but I don't really know what this means. I know it is lower than DS1 had at this stage of the year in year one. His was 128 which we were told was good. Is 118 good too?

[learnandsay]

Can't you ask his teacher? Wouldn't we have to know which test he sat to answer?

[Virgil]

I think it's a standardised test hence the question rather than hours of googling.

I've just read something in the MN archives about 120 being good so sounds like he's on the right track.

[picturesinthefirelight]

I guess it depends in the test

The ones my children do below 80 is cause for concern/SEN. 100-120 is average and 130 is exceptional.

[GrimmaTheNome]

This sort of test result is always centred at 100 and they tend to follow similar distributions (bell curve type of thing). A typical 'stanine' description of the distribution is:

Description St % pupils percentile score
Very high 9 4 97+ 127+
Above av. 8 7 90-96 119-126
Above av. 7 12 78-89 112-118
Average 6 17 59-77 104-111
Average 5 20 41-58 97-103
Average 4 17 23-40 89-96
Below av. 3 12 12-22 82-88
Below av. 2 7 5-11 74-81
Very low 1 4 4- 73-


So, yes, its good.
(Quite how meanigful these tests are at age 5 I'm not sure, probably not worth overanalysing yet.)

[mums999]

It would relate to a score close to 80%. It's a good score. Why is the school giving an NVR test? Is it for 11+ preparation?

[kilmuir]

year 1????

[Virgil]

Not 11+ just yet, he is only five!

I don't know why they did the test really other than to assess where he is. It's a selective school so they test quite frequently.

[picturesinthefirelight]

They do them every year at my dc school on computers and then if they consistently do well enoughbtheyvdontvhsvevtobtake senior entrance exam.

[lilackaty]

Yes, as Grimma said, it is good.