CogAT practiceLessons
Free CogAT lessons
The CogAT has nine kinds of question, three in each battery. Each lesson shows a real practice question, works it through, and names the traps hidden in the wrong answers.
Verbal Battery
Reasoning with words: how pairs of words go together, which word completes a sentence, and which word belongs in a group.
- Verbal analogiesTwo words that go together, then a third word and an arrow. Your child picks the word that goes with the third word in the same way as the first pair.
- Sentence completionA sentence with one word missing. Every choice fits the grammar; only one makes the sentence make sense.
- Verbal classificationThree words that are alike in some way. Your child picks the word that belongs with them.
Quantitative Battery
Reasoning with numbers: finding the rule between pairs of numbers, solving number puzzles, and continuing number series.
- Number analogiesTwo pairs of numbers, each turned into the next by the same rule, then a third number. Your child finds the rule and uses it on the third number.
- Number puzzlesA short equation with a question mark, and sometimes a shape that stands for a number. Your child finds the number that makes both sides equal.
- Number seriesA row of numbers that follows a rule. Your child picks the number that comes next.
Nonverbal Battery
Reasoning with shapes and pictures: shape patterns, folded paper with holes punched in it, and which shape belongs with a group.
- Figure matricesTwo pictures that go together, then a third picture. Your child picks the picture that changes the third one in the same way.
- Paper foldingA square of paper is folded, then a hole is punched through it. Your child picks what the paper looks like opened out.
- Figure classificationThree pictures that are alike in some way. Your child picks the picture that belongs with them.
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