COGNITIVE ABILITIES TEST

ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

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Contents

Our students start school

with a diverse range of abilities
and backgrounds, so our main aim
is to ensure everyone leaves our
school feeling they have achieved
their full potential. We use
GL Assessment’s Cognitive Abilities
Test (CAT) to build a broader
picture of where that
potential may lie.
Stacey Knight, Basic Skills Manager
at King Ethelbert Secondary
School in Kent

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Introduction to the
Cognitive Abilities Test:
Fourth Edition (CAT4)

Key to unlocking potential

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Why a fourth edition?

A brand new suite of data rich reports A new structure with spatial ability at its heart

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Up-to-date normative data

And CAT4 Digital?

Other improvements in CAT4

Why use CAT4?

The benefits explained...

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What CAT4 tells you –
the test batteries explained

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Verbal Reasoning Example Questions
Battery – thinking
with words

Example questions from Level A

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Quantitative Reasoning Example Questions
Battery – thinking
with numbers

Example questions from Level D

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Non-verbal Example Questions
Reasoning Battery –
thinking with shapes

Example questions from Level F

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Spatial Ability Battery Example Questions
– thinking with shape
and space

Example questions from Level G

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Testing with CAT4
Administration -
paper and digital
editions explained

CAT4 Paper edition

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 CAT4 Digital edition

CAT can help us spot

those children who are not
fulfilling their true potential – such
as high achievers who are simply coasting.
These pupils may not alert the attention
of the teacher as they are still getting good
grades, but their CAT results can indicate When to test with CAT4
that they are capable of achieving a lot more.
Once we have uncovered who they are, we
can then find a way to motivate and
encourage them to do better. This is
especially useful for larger classes,
where these things can be missed.

Peter Spratling, Junior School Assessment

leader at The British International
School, Cairo (BISC)

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 Which test levels to use?

What test results can I obtain?

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CAT4 Scoring and Reporting

Communicating CAT4 results through dynamic reports

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