<p>I understand that one test doesn’t seem like a lot for so much hoopla, but that one test reflects natural intellect and a lot of learning over the years. I have yet to know a NMF who isn’t an extremely bright child, although I have known plenty of valedictorians who were hard workers and great students, but “didn’t test well”, as they weren’t as naturally sharp as the NMFs I know. Everyone of the NMFs that I know are analytically strong and learn well on their own. They are just just different. I realize that some are lazy and will not do well in college, but that will happen with any group of kids. Now, I do know some who truly did have a best test day, and as bad as I feel for them, every competition has an end. If you are not well one day and run a bad race at regional competition, you don’t go to the state competition. It happens, it is life and it is a fact in everything we do in life.</p>