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This happens more than you would think. Be happy it showed up now and not in the PSAT in 11th grade. One thing about the NCLB tests is that they often test the same things as are in the curriculum at school and teachers often spend time preparing students for the tests. So, they are more like tests in school, they are given in school setting, and kids with good grades normally do well on them. The admissions tests cover a broader range of material and require more reasoning.
If it were my child, I would have her tested as others have suggested, and hold off on applications for next year. One thing you might want to do, I heard this in an SAT context, not SSAT, is have your child take a practice math test section from one of the books under the normal way. Then, have her take a different math practice session, but do not provide any multiple choice answers (doesn't work for alll questions) make her figure out the answers, and give her more time, maybe 1 1/2 to 2 times the time. If she does much better the second way, more likely a testing issue than a reasoning one.
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