Why should my child take CogAT Test?
The CogAT Test is a great way to start your child climb the Academic Ladder What is the CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)? CogAT test scores are used by K-12 teachers in the United States to make student placement decisions for gifted programs. The following seven abilities of your child will be assessed in the CogAT test: 1) Language: Your child’s ability to understand the words they hear and later read all day. It is also your child’s ability to use words orally and later in writing. 2) Knowledge & Comprehension: Your child’s understanding of information, social standards of behavior, and common sense that kids your child’s age normally have. 3) Memory: Your child’s ability to remember both visual and oral information learned in the last few seconds or in the past. It is also your child’s ability to do something with information just learned 4) Math: Covers computational skills such as counting, adding, subtracting and high order mathematical sequencing such as patterning, ordering, classifying, and comparing. 5) Visual-Spatial Reasoning: Your child’s ability to reason and solve problems using pictures, images, diagrams, shapes, maps, and tables. 6) Cognitive Skills: Are thinking abilities such as symbolic and abstract thinking 7) Fine Motor Skills: Your child’s abilities to control their hands and fingers to make small movements like tying shoelaces, buttoning buttons, or writing with a pencil.
