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I'm not 100% sure about the IOWA, but for the CAT/TerraNova, the 2005 was the most recent test until pretty recently. The companies creating these tests don't redo these things every year or anything. 

 

Either way, imo, yes, 2005 is still recent enough. I wouldn't advice taking a test normed in the 70s (there is at least once company where you can still get the 1970s CAT). But, the number of cultural/technological changes since 2005 are not so big that it would seriously affect a child's understanding of the test questions (for example, for the kindergarten level or something, on an old test you might find stuff like a picture of a rotary phone and expects the kid to know that it's a phone, and that might be considered to be an easy question... except that in 2017, that would not be an easy question for a 5yo).

 

As for whether the percentile ranking is still valid... probably still close enough as well - if the kid scores above average, the kid is probably above average, if the kid scores below average, the kid probably is below average. It's not like these tests are super accurate anyway... if your kid scores at the 58th percentile taking it today, they could just as easily score at the 53rd or the 63rd percentile tomorrow or yesterday, depending on how well they happened to be concentrating, etc, w/e. It's not like kids have changed *that* insanely much since 2005, nor has the educational system in the entire US gotten *that* extremely much better or worse since then either (some individual schools will have gotten better or worse, but the US overall... probably not a big enough change to make one question the percentile ranking more than just day-to-day variability kids will have anyway).

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