Wide Range Achievement Test scoring range

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Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone can help me with what the scoring range is on WRAT's? Daughter has had report home but no explanation on scores, ive had a look round and cant see anything. Thanks in advance

Eliza - that is my worry, i want her to have the opportunity to reach her potential. Thanks for your help, think ill get in touch with ket worker in the new year.

Cross -post! Extra time is typically awarded on the basis of processing speed but the school may not have assessed this. Also your DD might qualify for rest breaks if she gets very tired. Ed psychology reports should be done at end of year 9/beginning of yr 10 for gcse access arrangements. In the meantime the school should pick up if she regularly needs extra time to compete her work.

She might be eligible for extra time or other access arrangements. I think it might be useful to get additional measures of her processing speed and reading speed as well as writing speed to see if she has more general problems with her speed of working. GCSE regulations change every year so I can't really say what she's likely to get in terms of access arrangements as she's only in Y7 now. 85 is the cut off point for some access arrangements but scores under 90 can also be used as evidence sometimes. It depends on what is being asked for - use of a word processor for example is permitted when that is the pupil's normal way of working.

You will need to check but I think they have to score less than 85 to get extra time.

There is a rule about using laptops being a normal way of working. The school has to start building evidence for that. I would definately investigate rest breaks.

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You can get 25% extra time currently with either 1x standard score below 85 or 2x standard scores below 90 on measures of processing speed.

Thanks all I'll look into extra time / rest breaks with key worker

My son is using a laptop as his usual way of working since starting year 7 this year. He doesn't have any diagnosis but was given a handwriting test which he presumes was for legibility and is under the impression that if he uses laptop continually now he will be able to use it for exams.

Is this correct even without any diagnosis and presumably he will just have the same time as everyone else?

Would you receive the exam paper on the computer to fill in answers to questions for geography for example?

What evidence would school have to keep - just that he signs for the laptop each morning and returns it each night and does all his work on it??

Sorry just realized I hijacked / changed the subject of the thread. I didn't mean to.