CogAT Grades 9-12 case studies
CogAT Grades 9-12 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a K–12 cognitive abilities assessment published by Riverside Insights. It is not a subject-matter achievement test and it is not a pass/fail credential; instead, it measures how students learn by sampling reasoning across three domains: verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal. The CogAT Grades 9-12 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,755 words.
1Four Votes for the Distractor: Judging a Part–Whole Analogy
A tutor runs a 50-minute verbal session for six students preparing for the analogies subtest. Items are timed at 90 seconds and scored right-or-wrong, with no partial credit.
741 words, about 4 min2The Series That Looks Like Pairs: 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 15, ?
Dev, a ninth grader, reviews the 20-item number-series section he finished in 11 of its 14 minutes; he scored 14/20. He keeps a log of answers and time per item.
741 words, about 4 min3Three Folds, Three Miscounts: Paper Folding Without the Paper
Nia, a tenth grader, works through six paper-folding items at the kitchen table using real paper, because the actual test shows only drawings of a folded sheet and four answer choices. Trial 1: she folds a square sheet in half top to bottom, creases it, folds it in half again left to right, creases it, then punches one hole straight through the packet at a point near the corner where the two open edges meet.
765 words, about 4 min4Far From Being ___ : Two Students, One Hinge Word
Two students in a debate club spend 25 minutes on 15 two-blank sentence completions, 45 seconds per item, then compare answers. They disagree on 4 of the 15.
733 words, about 4 min5Sixteen or Twenty-Two: Adjudicating a Number Puzzle in Two Minutes
Every Thursday the ninth-grade math class of 24 works six number puzzles in ten minutes - about 100 seconds each - and then defends answers. Puzzle 4 is a three-by-three grid whose rows read 6, 3, 18 / 5, 4, 20 / 8, 2, ?
775 words, about 4 min