Have your child work with gifted and talented test sample questions if they have a test coming up. Experience with the question types can make a huge difference in their performance. Practicing will also build confidence when they are in a foreign environment.
If you need help figuring out what test your child will take – our Student Success Team can help. We have helped 1,000’s of families prepare their children for testing with fantastic results. You can move on to using our G&T practice tests once you know which questions to use.
Here are sample questions from the most popular gifted tests. They ascend in difficulty starting at Kindergarten up to 8th grade. There are 2 questions per grade level. Each section also contains a link to more free gifted sample questions for that grade level.
The CogAT, ITBS, OLSAT, NNAT are generally the most common tests administered. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of the test your child take before. A Testing Mom membership includes practice to over 30 of the most popular tests. This is helpful because programs may use different tests in their application process.
Jump right to gifted and talented test sample questions with the links below:
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Kindergarten Sample Questions
For kindergarten students, gifted and talented assessments often focus on essential foundational skills such as attentive listening and comprehension of directions. The type of challenges they might face includes categorizing objects or ideas, solving analogies, identifying patterns, navigating number puzzles and completing sentences.
1st Grade Sample Questions
Once a child has experienced a year of kindergarten, the evaluation for gifted and talented abilities becomes more centered on “achievement,” indicating the knowledge that the child has already acquired. For instance, a question regarding “citrus” would be considered an achievement-based question, as understanding this concept is typically part of learned knowledge.
2nd Grade Sample Questions
In second grade, gifted and talented test prep intensifies. This preparation broadens their knowledge base and their ability to use it effectively. Students will be faced with more advanced gifted and talented practice questions, aimed at their growing ability to infer and deduce, often through problem-solving and pattern recognition tasks.
3rd Grade Sample Questions
As children progress to third grade, gifted and talented test prep becomes even more structured. The goal is to enable students to apply learned concepts in new ways. Gifted and talented practice questions at this stage may involve critical analysis, more complex problem-solving and identifying logical sequences.
4th Grade Sample Questions
Fourth-grade gifted and talented test prep will focus on the child’s ability to critically analyze situations and to approach problems from multiple perspectives. This advancement in test prep will entail gifted and talented practice questions that challenge the child’s abstract reasoning and cognitive flexibility.
5th Grade Sample Questions
For fifth-grade students, gifted and talented test prep starts emphasizing more on understanding intricate patterns, advanced logic, and problem-solving skills. Students will be challenged with gifted and talented practice questions that probe their cognitive depths and stimulate high-level thinking.
6th Grade Sample Questions
Sixth-grade gifted and talented test prep continues to develop students’ analytical abilities and creative thinking. The complexity of the gifted and talented practice questions increases, involving more sophisticated patterns, logical reasoning tasks and higher-order thinking.
7th Grade Sample Questions
In seventh grade, gifted and talented test prep takes a deep dive into the intricacies of complex problem-solving and reasoning skills. Gifted and talented practice questions become more elaborate, requiring students to showcase their critical thinking, logical deductions and ability to synthesize information.
8th Grade Sample Questions
By the eighth grade, gifted and talented test prep explores the pinnacle of problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills. Gifted and talented practice questions at this level challenge the students to use their accumulated knowledge, experience and intellectual abilities to navigate through complex cognitive tasks.
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