Gifted

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Giftedness or Intellectual Giftedness is characterized by intellectual development in children that surpasses those of their same age. Gifted children often show greater ability at grasping harder academic concepts and at times greater creativity than those of their same grade level.

Measuring Intellectual Giftedness

Though the measure of being intellectually gifted is still heavily debated, most measures use the consistent and highly developed IQ test as the measure. Among these, the common benchmark is top 84th percentile and above.