[Oz-gifted] computer competition

[Matthew & Tracey Wood]

I remember my DD doing the UNSW tests in year 6 and coming home telling me
she did terribly...and she got distinctions for all four tests. Then sitting
the Australian Maths Competition and telling me she thought she's done
dreadfully and she got a High distinction.

I know with S it's because she rarely gets anything wrong, so one or two
mistakes is a failure to her. I had to go through explaining to her that she
wasn't meant to know everything as if it's wasn't difficult they couldn't
distinguish between the good, very good and really brilliant.

She told me last week she hadn't done very well in her Maths test...and she
got somewhere in the 90's..and top mark in the class....so I've stopped
accepting  her evaluations of tests until the results come out.

Tracey



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:oz-gifted-bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au] On Behalf Of sol1
Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2006 6:22 AM
To: oz-gifted at cobia.ed.qut.edu.au
Subject: Re: [Oz-gifted] computer competition

This must be new - my son has entered this competition every year since he
was old enough - but it used to be year 5 was the earliest year offered. I
am not sure how he would have fared in year 3 - but he has come in the top
1% of the state every year since grade 5.

As Sandi says though, it is a competition  and there will be a very few kids
who can score close to or even perfectly. Having said that, you should wait
until the results come out - you might be very surprised, it will all depend
on how she fared compared to the other entrants, not how many she got
correct. I remember my son in year 3 doing the maths competition, coming out
devastated because he didn't know "anything", only to receive a Distinction
certificate at about the 95th percentile. Gifted kids who are perfectionists
tend to dwell on the couple of things they had trouble with and forget all
the ones they breezed through :-)

L



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Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: [Oz-gifted] computer competition


>
> Hi all,
> Today my daughter completed the year 3 computer competition. She had 
> prepared herself as well as she could, but found it difficult. It was more

> than a challenge. Did anyone else find this? Some of the questions had 
> some very tricky language in them.
> She was unfamiliar with watermarks.
> Also, one of the questions mentioned the memory stick. I hadn't thought to

> teach her about mine. As a year 3 student, she just saves things on the 
> hard drive.  She found it hard to believe that there was something called 
> a memory stick!
> In the end she was disappointed with herself. I explained that it was 
> probably the hardest comp she would do as technology is always changing 
> and there are always unexpected things on it.
> Miriam
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