NNAT3 Level E study guide
NNAT3 Level E · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
NNAT3 Level E is the most advanced form of the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test, Third Edition, a language-free measure of general reasoning ability used in gifted and talented identification. Level E is aimed at upper-secondary students, and because items use shapes, matrices, and figural sequences rather than reading or vocabulary, the test is intended to be fair to students still developing English, to multilingual learners, and to those whose reasoning is stronger than their school grades suggest. It is typically administered in groups at a school or testing center, on paper or online, and is scored against national norms. Level E samples four reasoning areas: completing a partially shown pattern, solving figural analogies, continuing a visual series, and mentally manipulating or assembling shapes. The NNAT3 Level E study guide has 4 sections and about 1,528 words.
01Pattern Completion
Pattern Completion asks you to restore a design that has a piece missing. On NNAT3 Level E, the item shows a large geometric pattern with a blank region, and the answer choices are small patches.
387 words, about 2 min02Reasoning by Analogy
Reasoning by Analogy presents a pair of figures with a stated relationship, then a third figure and a blank. You choose the figure that completes the second pair using the same relationship.
388 words, about 2 min03Serial Reasoning
Serial Reasoning asks you to continue a sequence or fill a missing cell in a matrix. The figures change step by step according to one or more rules.
381 words, about 2 min04Spatial Visualization
Spatial Visualization tests your ability to mentally rotate, reflect, fold, and combine shapes. On NNAT3 Level E, items may ask which figure results from folding and punching a sheet, which piece completes a larger shape after rotation, or which option is a rotation rather than a mirror image of a given figure.
372 words, about 2 min