In the Wake County Public School System, the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is administered to all students in 2nd grade. The CogAT measures general thinking and problem-solving skills and indicates how well the student uses these skills to solve verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal problems.
The Iowa Assessments (Iowa) consists of a number of educational achievement subtests designed to measure growth in fundamental areas of school achievement including reading comprehension and mathematics.