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Test Quest by Testing Mom provides you withpractice questions for the most popular tests given to kids frompre-K to 8th grade. No matter if your child is taking the OLSAT®test and NNAT® test for the New York City Gifted and Talented orthe CogAT® test to get into a competitive program in other areas ofthe United States and Canada this app is for you. This app alsohelps with practicing for state achievement tests along with thecommon core for ELA and math for both Smarter Balance and PARC(Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers).Here’s a brief summary the practice questions for each of the testsprovided.

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The OLSAT® Test (the Otis–Lennon School Ability Test®) isdesigned to access your child’s performance across a wide varietyof reasoning skill sets. It is an intelligence test that can begiven in a group setting, so schools use it frequently to assesschildren for gifted and talented programs.

The Cognitive Abilities Test™, or CogAT® Test, is a cognitivetest used by many school districts to qualify children for theirgifted and talented programs, and getting a great score on it canhave tremendous ramifications for your child’s future. It is not anachievement test or an intelligence test. The test assessesreasoning and problem solving abilities in three key areas: 1)verbal, 2) math, and 3) non-verbal or spatial.

The Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test®, or the NNAT® test or theNNAT®2 test, are nonverbal tests, which means that all thequestions rely on shapes and figures instead of pictures or words.These tests assess a child’s thinking and reasoning abilities asopposed to what he or she has learned in school.

The Stanford-Binet® - 5 test, like the WISC® test and WPPSI™ test,is an IQ test. The Stanford-Binet® – 5 test is the Fifth Edition ofthe test and the one your child is likely to be given. The purposeof this test is to assess your child’s IQ or intellectual quotient.The IQ refers to the composite intelligence test score that comesfrom combining all the subtest scores on the Stanford-Binet test(or any other IQ test).

The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS® Test) is given as astandardized test to children ranging from kindergarten to 8thgrade. The ITBS® test is an achievement test. This means that itassesses a child’s knowledge of what they have learned inschool.

The Woodcock-Johnson®-III Tests of Achievement is a 22-sectionachievement tests that assesses both academic achievement (whatchildren have learned in school) and cognitive development. It issometimes paired with an intelligence test to qualify children forgifted and talented programs.
The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales™ (RIAS™ Test) is abrief, individually administered measure of verbal and non-verbalintelligence. The RIAS™ test is often used by itself to qualifychildren for a gifted program

State Achievement Tests are tests that measure your child’sknowledge and understanding of academic content (i.e. math,reading, English, science, social studies). Students in each gradetypically take the same test under the same conditions (i.e. timelimits, directions, and testing formats are the same).