CogAT – Cognitive Aptitude Test

CogAT stands for Cognitive Aptitude test which was first published in 1968. It is a national level test. It is mostly utilized by the school districts to identify Gifted learners in the district. The CogAT is not an IQ test, but it measures a student’s reasoning abilities. The abilities tested in three key areas verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal, can together provide a comprehensive view of a student’s overall reasoning abilities.  The reasoning skills develop gradually throughout a person’s lifetime and at different rates for different individuals and can be learned and be improved. It is very helpful for parents to understand their kid’s strengths and weaknesses.

CogAT Test Prep at SMARTS:
The success of Test Prep lies in understanding the structure and the objective of Test Prep. Our test prep has continuously and successfully helped thousands of kids over the years to ace the CogAT.

The Structure of the test:

• Verbal: Verbal test battery tests students’ ability to solve
• Verbal analogy: As the name suggests Verbal Analogy tests the reasoning abilities to find the relationship among words presented during the test. Each test battery has around 25-28 questions and is 30 min long.
• Verbal Classification: Verbal classification serves to test how students classify and the world around them for understanding it and categorize the information that they learn. Each test battery has around 25-28 questions and is 30 min long.
• Sentence Completion: This battery tests a students’ deductive logic to fill in the blanks in the sentence. This helps understand to the verbal reasoning abilities of the child using given choices. Each test battery has around 25-28 questions and is 30 min long.
• Non-Verbal: Non-Verbal tests battery is the hardest among all the batteries tested as these are not taught as part of traditional schooling. These batteries include:
  • Non- Verbal Analogy: Non-verbal tests the visual-spatial reasoning abilities of the student.  It tests the ability to find relationship and a pattern among the various geometrical shapes
  • Non- Verbal Classification: The Classification battery tests the reasoning abilities to classify and categories figures. These tests are very complex and hard as in formal schooling these skills are not necessarily taught. The tests include shapes in matrices or as in classification of different figures
  • Non-Verbal Figure Analysis (Paper folding): Paper folding includes figuring out how a square paper if folded and hole punched would look like when unfolded. This tests the deductive logic with visual spatial reasoning of the student.

Quantitative: As the name indicates the quantitative section contains:

• Number Analogy: Tests students’ reasoning abilities to find relationship and pattern among numbers
• Number Puzzles: Tests the quantitative reasoning for understanding forming of numbers using order of operations.
• Number sequences: To decipher the sequence of the number and find the pattern in the numbers.

Ability Vs Achievement:
Reasons why your child needs CogAT Test Prep:

• The skills needed to pass these tests are not part of the normal school curriculum or specifically taught in traditional schools. The test is applied testing on the concepts and includes a higher level of reasoning not often taught at school.
• We teach your child test-taking strategies which play an important role in maximizing test scores.
• We also help your child in understanding the importance of time management while taking the tests.
• It is important that your child knows the format and knows the expectations from the test.
• The test is timed and it is important that your child familiarized with it to perform better on the test day.
• These tests are also often not released to the public for practice which is why it is so important to have a prep your child to succeed.

Do you need more information about the CogAT test prep?
Feel free to contact us anytime by dialing 214.578.7222. SMARTS Club is always striving to meet the educational needs of school-age children.