My experience at JCE, Gifted Child Centre
I, too, attended the JCE gifted child centre in the late 1980's. I had a similar experience. I recall writing an intelligence test around age 9 in our school library. There were pattern recognition questions and questions where you had to select the correct sequence or fit shapes together. I loved those. It seemed quite logical. A while later, some kids in my class, about 4 of us, were given letters to take home. I remember that particularly as my brother, who was 18 months older than me and a grade ahead, was very upset that I was being sent to a gifted centre and he was not. Ironically, he was the diligent one who did very well in school. I found out as an adult that I have ADHD, and homework was not something I ever did conscientiously. I only performed under pressure when stress overcame my procrastination. But he was selected a year later, and we continued to attend together thereafter. So I was quite young when I first started attending. My pare...