Practice Test for the CogAT Grade 1 Form 7 Level 7: Gifted and Talented Test Prep for First Grade; CogAT Grade 1 Practice Test; CogAT Form 7 Grade 1, ... One, Gifted and Talented Workbooks Grade 1

Description

This gifted and talented test preparation book contains a full-length CogAT® Form 7 Grade One practice test, which provides gifted and talented CogAT test preparation for first grade students. This Level 7 (Grade 1) test will prepare your child for the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) , an exam used for admission to US gifted and talented programs, including in the San Diego Unified School District GATE program, Houston Vanguard schools, and Chicago programs for the education of the gifted. The questions in this CogAT practice test were created by educators who have prepared many children for gifted and talented tests. They cover all three of the test's sections (nine question types) so you can help your student improve the logical and visual reasoning skills required to excel on the CogAT test. By using this gifted workbook, your student can get used to the format and content of the CogAT® Grade 1 test so he or she is adequately prepared and feels confident on test day. This practice test contains all nine question types on the Level 7 CogAT, including: Verbal (Picture Analogies, Sentence Completion, Picture Classification ) Quantitative (Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, Number Series) Figurative (Figure Matrices, Paper Folding, Figure Classification) We suggest you use the practice test as a diagnostic to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, or as a ‘mock’ exam to simulate real testing conditions. In the latter case, we recommend that you have your child take the test in timed conditions over the course of a few days, as per the instructions in the book. What's Inside this CogAT Test Prep Book? A full-length CogAT Form 7 Level 7 practice test, containing 136 practice questions. Access to bonus online 'challenge' questions. Detailed descriptions of questions and answer keys. Essential test prep strategies to help students avoid mistakes and achieve their best score. This is the best value you will find for CoGAT prep! Who can use this CogAT® Prep Guide and Practice Test? Gifted and Talented Test Preparation for 2nd Grade: The standardized test prep workbook is for 1st grade students who are taking the CogAT test to gain admission to Grade 2 gifted and talented programs. Gifted and Talented Test Preparation for 1st Grade Kindergarten students can also use this practice test to develop and hone cognitive skills that will be tested in 1st grade for admission to 2nd grade gifted and talented programs. Why use our Gifted and Talented Test Preparation books? Our goal is to provide you with the very best CogAT test prep materials, and the best value for your money. We created our test prep material because we could not find enough good practice material to effectively prepare students for gifted and talented tests. As tutors and teachers, we have used various test prep books and have found that they either have an incorrect difficulty level or are overly expensive. After studying original materials from test creators and testing them on children, we are confident our materials and tests reflect the real CogAT® both in difficulty and in structure. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company was not involved in the production of, nor endorses, this practice test created by Origins Publications and the Gifted and Talented CoGAT Test Prep team. Review: A level more complex than the Kindergarten edition yet thorough and professional - I am new to CogAT testing, which some organizations use to identify gifted and talented students who would be candidates for accelerated programs and highly competitive schools. The publisher, Origins Publications, offers professional, appealing products for those who wish to prepare children for CogAT testing. This is just one of a series for different ages. This book is for Grade 1 students. This book does a thorough job preparing 1st Grade students for CogAT testing. The book first introduces CogAT testing to newbies like myself by explaining what it is, how it is offered and whom to contact if you are interested in CogAt testing where you live, then discusses how to best use the book to prepare your child/student. The book also offers no-nonsense test prep tips and strategies and a few sample questions. The book proper offers a complete practice test and a complete set of practice test sheets which uses fill-in-the-bubbles similar to the sheets used during the actual CogAt test. Parents and teachers will find answers and (some) explanations to the practice test in the back of the book, too. Pages are 8.5x11 (standard U.S. letter size) and thus can be easily copied if needed for multiple practice test sessions. The publisher, Origins Publications, also provides bonus challenge questions via email through the company's web site (the URL for the form is provided in the book), which are also 8.5x11. The book is professionally printed and bound. The cover is full color, as one would expect from a professional publication. The interior pages are black and white, like the actual CogAT test. I believe this better prepares students for the actual test. The images in the book are clear with sufficient contrast to properly test the skills of the child rather than their abilities to see color. We must remember that even some gifted children are color blind, and if color images do not have sufficient contrast without color, children with any form of color blindness may not be able to adequately distinguish the elements in the test questions and thus be properly tested. They may, in fact, "fail" for their inability to distinguish color, rather than their true cognitive gifts. (Surprisingly, the additional challenge questions are provided in color, but when printed on a laser printer, for example, still have sufficient b/w contrast.) The purpose of this series of books is to accustom students to the CogAT test and its conditions, which include verbal, quantitative and non-verbal skills, stress management, time management, test format, test content, and most of all provide confidence through familiarity. This book succeeds on all counts. Compared to the Kindergarten book of the same series, this book offers greater difficulty with number analogies and the figure classifications are generally more complex, demonstrating changes in two elements rather than a single element, as in the Kindergarten book. This book prepares students for Form 7, which interestingly enough uses pictures to better test non-English speaking students. It is also interesting to note that, although for 1st graders, some of the questions in this test may be challenging for adults, too. As an adult, I found the questions sufficiently challenging, particularly the matrices, to check my answers against the answers in the back. As with the Kindergarten book, my choice was not always correct. LOL Even if your student is not taking the CogAT test, this series of books contains good exercises to help young students develop problem solving and logical reasoning skills, and to categorize and departmentalize as they develop these skills. The only weakness that I have found in this book in particular is that none of the answers on the answer sheet provide any explanation to understand why the correct answer is correct. While the Kindergarten book provides a few explanations (though not enough), this book surprisingly does not provide any. Perhaps future releases will address this concern. As a proud adult, I would like to know why I could not identify the correct answer in a first grader's test booklet. :D Review: Same questions have different answers - Number Series in Quantitative Battery question 14 and question 16, page 100 and page 101 have the same questions. However, the key answers are different. Please make a correction.