SAGES-3
Screening Assessment for Gifted Elementary and Middle School Students
The SAGES is a screening test some schools and districts use to find children for gifted programs. It has one level for Kindergarten to Grade 3 and one for Grades 4 to 8.
Unlike a pure IQ test, half of it is reasoning and half is what a child knows in school subjects, so it looks at both ability and what a child has learned.
- Ages
- 5 to 14
- How it is given
- One-to-one or in a small group
- How long
- About 15 to 30 minutes a part
What it measures
- Nonverbal reasoning: picture and figure puzzles
- Verbal reasoning: how pairs of words relate
- Math and science knowledge
- Language arts and social studies knowledge
What you can do
- Keep up wide reading, including nonfiction about science, history and places.
- Talk about how words go together: 'a glove goes with a hand the way a sock goes with a foot'.
- Try picture-pattern puzzles and age-level math problems for fun.
Practice for the same skills
None of these is the SAGES-3. Each one builds a general skill it draws on, in a short, friendly format your child can try at home.
- CogAT practiceVerbal, number and picture reasoning in three parts. Up to Grade 2, every question is a picture and is read aloud.Try it
- OLSAT practiceVerbal and nonverbal reasoning, including following directions and word meanings. Kindergarten to Grade 12.Try it
- NNAT practiceReasoning with shapes and colors only: no words and no numbers. Kindergarten to Grade 8.Try it
- Word analogies lessonHow word pairs relate, step by step: a free lesson that builds vocabulary and verbal reasoning.Try it
- MAP Growth-style practiceMath, reading and language by grade, adapting to each answer: school skills, not puzzles.Try it
Practice the skills, not the test
These tests are given in person by a trained examiner, and their questions are kept private: publishers do not sell them to families, and nobody can lawfully offer the real items. Nothing on this site is taken from them.
Drilling a child on copies of the questions would not help either. A result is only meaningful if the questions are new to your child, so a rehearsed score can place them in a program that does not fit, and a psychologist may set it aside.
Other tests
- WISC-V
- WPPSI
- Stanford-Binet 5
- KABC-II
- KBIT-2
- RIAS-2
- WASI-II
- Woodcock-Johnson and WIAT
- Bracken (BSRA)
- Raven's
- Spatial Test Battery
- Torrance and CAP
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