By practicing, your child will have gone over each type of question and will know how to handle it. It’s not that hard – as long as you know what you are doing. The child would need to create the problem 5 + 2 – 4 and get to the answer 3. With the type of question that Dave’s son faced for the first time when tested, they were expected to put numbers and signs together that lead to an answer choice: 5 2 4 – + might be featured with answer choices 1,11, 3, 6. Often, on these tests, questions are structured in a way that children have never seen before. At least they will not lose time trying to figure out what they are supposed to do. This is the value of preparing your children for these kinds of tests. Otherwise, your child might be “completely lost” as Dave’s son was. If you cannot find out which CogAT Form your school will you, it will be important to practice questions for both tests. We do have practice materials for both tests at but it is helpful to know which group of questions to focus on. As kids get older, the two tests are quite similar except for two math sections. For kindergarteners – 2nd graders, the two tests are especially different.
Form 6 is the old Form of the test, but as you can see, schools are still using it. If you learn that your child will be taking the CogAT, try to find out whether he will be given CogAT Form 6 or Form 7. Even if he hadn’t practiced it, the teacher should have made sure the kids understood it before turning them loose on the section. We do have practice materials on our site. I’m guessing if they use Form 6 for 4th grade, they may use it for 2nd grade. I would make sure to work with CogAT Form 6 for your 2nd grader just to be sure. This is one of the few different parts for a 4th grader. Most sections on the CogAT Form 6 are similar to Form 7, so for the most part, your son worked with the right material. That’s very interesting because most school districts have moved to the CogAT Form 7, which replaced CogAT Form 6 over a year and a half ago.
They have to put the numbers with the plus and minus signs to reach one of the answer choices. “Dave, it sounds like he was given the CogAT Form 6. He had 8 minutes for 20 of them and was completely lost. He said it went great until there was a part where he had no idea what to do…the best way he explained it was it looked like this 7 25 + –, another one was 19 35 +. Today was the last day of the 4th grade testing. The school had not specified whether they would be giving CogAT Form 6 or CogAT Form 7, so they prepared for the CogAT Form 7 – the newest version of the test. This week, I received a note from a dad who is a member at my other website, He had been helping his son get ready for the CogAT, a test that would decide whether or not the boy would be admitted to his school’s G&T program. By Testing for Kindergarten February 9, 2013