Essential Guides to Cognitive Ability Test 4 

Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) is a diagnostic assessment that is designed to help students and their teachers understand how they learn and what their academic potential might be. It assesses how students think in areas that are known to make a difference to learning. CAT4 is available at seven different levels of difficulty. Schools use a child’s performance in a CAT4 to judge progress over the academic year and to make decisions regarding setting and streaming according to ability. It is a way for a school to understand a pupil’s strengths and weaknesses and to personalize learning and adapt teaching. 

The CAT4 is a standardized cognitive test. It provides insights into your child's' ability to reason across 4 fields:

• thinking about shapes and patterns (Non-Verbal Reasoning),

• words (Verbal Reasoning),

• numbers (Quantitative Reasoning)

• and some questions are answered by mentally generating and transforming visual images (Spatial Ability).

The content of these tests is not curriculum-based. Instead of testing your child's knowledge, they are meant to highlight strengths and weaknesses.

CAT4 is designed to give us a much broader, more rounded view of each child, their potential and how they learn. Results help teachers decide about the pace of learning that is right for your child and whether additional support or challenge is needed.