This gifted and talented test preparation book contains a full-length CogAT® Kindergarten practice test, which provides gifted and talented CogAT test preparation for Kindergarten students.This test will prepare your child for the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®), a test for children that is used for admission to US gifted and talented programs, including the San Diego Unified School District GATE program, Houston Vanguard schools, and Chicago programs for the education of the gifted.The questions in this CogAT practice test were created by educators who have prepared many children for gifted and talented tests. They cover all three of the test’s sections (nine question types) so you can help your student improve the logical and visual reasoning skills required to excel on the CogAT test. This gifted and talented workbook also includes resources and tips for preparing for the test, and provides sample questions for each question type.By using this gifted workbook, your student can get used to the format and content of the CogAT Kindergarten test so he or she is adequately prepared and feels confident on test day.This practice test contains all nine question types on the Level K CogAT, including:Verbal (Picture Analogies, Picture Classification )Quantitative (Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, Number Series)Figurative (Figure Matrices, Paper Folding, Figure Classification)We suggest you use the practice test as a diagnostic to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, or as a ‘mock’ exam to simulate real testing conditions. In the latter case of using the practice test in this book as a ‘mock’ test, we recommend that you have your child take the test in timed conditions over the course of a few days, as per the instructions in the book.What’s Inside this CogAT Test Prep Book for Kindergarten?• A full-length CogAT practice test, containing 120 practice questions.• Detailed descriptions of questions and answer keys.• Essential test prep strategies to help students avoid mistakes and achieve their best score.This is the best value you will find for CoGAT prep!Who can use this CogAT® Prep Guide and Practice Test?Gifted Testing Kindergarten: The gifted and talented workbook is targeted to students who are preparing for the Kindergarten CogAT test.Why use our Gifted and Talented books?Our goal is to provide you with the very best gifted education preparation resources, and the best value for your money. We created our test prep material because we could not find enough good practice material to build thinking skills and effectively prepare students for gifted and talented tests. As tutors and teachers, we have used various CogAT test prep books and have found that they either have an incorrect difficulty level or are overly expensive. After studying original materials from test creators and testing them on children, we are confident our educational materials and tests reflect the real CogAT® both in difficulty and in structure.The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company was not involved in the production of, nor endorses, this practice test created by Origins Publications and the Gifted and Talented CogAT Test Prep team.