Every school board has slightly different criteria for testing and formally identifying and placing gifted students. Most model the Toronto District School Board’s procedures. Gifted testing usually involves the administration of an intelligence test (e.g., Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 5th Edition). The WISC-V evaluates verbal and non-verbal intelligence and provides an IQ score. With few exceptions, in most school boards, gifted students must score in the top two percent of students their age (98th percentile). Students who have been IPRC’d as Learning Disabled or who are English as a Second Language learners, may qualify for the Gifted exceptionality under somewhat modified criteria.
