CogAT test practice at each age level

Welcome to the best practice CogAT tests. Which are the most ACCURATE COGAT practice tests?

Our levels of CogAT test practice

We offer each school year’s Level of CogAT test practice below. The first column contains a free CogAT sample at your child’s age. The second column allows you to buy the most accurate available CogAT practice tests, set at your pupils’s age

Free CogAT Prep ResourcesFull CogAT Prep Packs
Kindergarten levels 5/6 CogAT Free PracticeCogAT Kindergarten Full PrepPack
1st Grade level 7 CogAT Free Practice1st Grade CogAT Full Practice set
2nd Grade level 8 CogAT Free PracticeCogAT 2nd Grade Full PrepPack
3rd Grade level 9 CogAT Free Practice3rd Grade CogAT Full Practice set
4th Grade level 10 CogAT Free Practice4th Grade CogAT Full Practice set
5th Grade level 11 CogAT Free PracticeCogAT 5th Grade Full PrepPack
6th Grade level 12 CogAT Free Practice6th Grade CogAT Full Practice Set

We believe these are the most accurate CogAT Test practice papers you can buy.

What is the CogAT Test?

The CogAt is:

  • A non-verbal test designed as a multiple-choice test
  • Aimed at testing the academic aptitude and gifted abilities of children
  • Used in schools to test the cognitive development in children studying in grades K- 12.

What is in the CogAT practice tests?

Our CogAT practice tests contain 3 test batteries:

  1. Verbal Battery– verbal classification, sentence completion, verbal analogies.
  2. Quantitative Battery –  quantitative relations, number series, equation building.
  3. Non-Verbal Battery – figure classification, figure analogies, figure analysis.

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What is the purpose of the CogAt? Well, the CogAT test is:

Unlike assessment tests which measure what a student has already learned

Also used to determine whether a child has any other special talents. For example, for gifted and talented programmes in the US

That said, United States primary schools primarily use this method for testing students who are between grades K and 12.

Used to determine the reasoning abilities of a child and compares his or her progress to children of the same age and group.

When is the CogAT gifted child’s school assessment used?

The COgAt is used in gifted children assessment programs. The CogAt specifically can help gifted children to:

  • Find peers who have similar pursuits;
  • Fit in better than in general classrooms.
  • Feel better and they comfortable about socialising and thereby making new friends.

CogAT Test administration

  • Verbal battery tests have a picture or verbal analogies and classification and sentence completion.
  • Quantitative battery has number analogies and series and picture classification.
  • Non-verbal battery comprises of figure matrices and figures classification and paper folding.
  • Accessible to both English speaking students as well as non-English speaking students.

CogAT test levels for different pupil ages

There are 14 levels of tests and each is suitable for a different grade of student. The test materials are different for different levels. For example, a grade 4 student will never get the same questions as a level 9 student. Here, the levels reflect the ages. So, level 5 means the child is 5 years old. The first level of the test is for age 5 or 6, which is kindergarten level. The child appearing for the kindergarten-level test will thus be at least 5 or 6 years old and no more than 6 years old. If the child is older than 6, then he or she will have to take a more advanced test.

There is no syllabus-specific question and if a child is comfortable with more cognitive skills then they will perform better in the test. Most of the time, the students who do very well on these tests are considered gifted. Experts, however, have disagreed with this.

One set of a student’s CogAT test results cannot determine their future. Nonetheless, predictive data on a student’s progress and how far they can achieve can be determined from this test.

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CogAT test practice question formats

The students have to identify how two different pictures or concepts are related. This will use images or words or both and the level of explanation in the question will depend on the level of the test the child is taking. This section will consist of 14 questions and the child will get no more than 15 minutes to answer this section.

The questions might take the following form. A calf is to a cow what a foal is to a ____; the options will be sheep, horse, goat and pig. The child will have to select one of these four and proceed to the next section.

In the non-verbal part, there are:

  • Figure classifications.
  • 3 figures followed by a 4th in the answer section.
  • Ten minutes to answer 14 questions.
  • You need to work out the similarity.

Our gifted child assessment example

For example the New York City Gifted and Talented Test. The verbal sections involve testing the sense of taking directions, their aural reasoning, and arithmetic reasoning. The non-verbal questions assess the ability to complete a pattern, reasoning analogy, serial reasoning, and spatial visualisation too.

New York City Gifted and Talented Test (NYC G&T)

The children of New York City are assessed…

  • At ages 4 to 7 years for entering grades K-3.
  • Using Nonverbal questions are taken from the NNAT.
  • Plus, OLSAT-based oral questions
  • 48 non-verbal questions and 30 verbal questions.
  • Administration time of 30-60 minutes.

More Gifted child practice tests

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How can parents support CogAt prep?

Parents can support their child in the following ways:

  • By organizing various teaching methods that suit their child’s learning process best.
  • Providing a suitable, quiet working environment.
  • Provide new books and magazines which will encourage the learning of new words. Plus word meaning and different uses.
  • Arrange scientific experiments that can help to boost their child’s enthusiasm for learning CogAT-related concepts.

Using CogAT with a gifted child

  • CogAT will test your child’s cognitive skills. Or reasoning skills. Rather than their academic skills. Such skills are usually not taught in school. Still, cogAT scores determine whether pupils are part of gifted and talented programmes. Or not.
  • Once a tutor or parent needs to practice a few CogAT sample papers or CogAT mock tests.
  • Then, it is time for the tuor or parent to analyse where the child is getting mst types of question wrong.
  • Or do they need their future CogAT practice / CogAT tutoring to focus one either the quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning or non-verbal reasoning test paper?
  • Keep monitoring their progress. In particular, look for improved scores on their weaker CogAT question types / CogAT papers.
  • That means assigning more questions of these weaker topics. Then to offer specifc guidance on where mistakes are being made.

How do schools use CogAT test results?

CogAT tests are used by many schools and they can be taken independently as well without the supervision of teachers at the comfort of home.

It also shows teachers how best to teach individual students.

American use cogAT assessments to test students between the school grades K to 12.

The CogAT test determines the reasoning qualities of a child and compares his or her progress to the children of the same age and groups.

From School Entrance Tests, the Gifted education and Talented assessment specialists.

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