During the week beginning Monday 20th September 2021, we will be carrying out CAT testing for all Y7 students. CATs stand for Cognitive Abilities Tests. The CAT tests are designed to test children’s general intelligence, and help the schools to stream them into sets for all or some subjects.

The Cognitive Abilities Tests are designed to test your child’s strengths and weaknesses in four different areas. There’s a different CAT test to gauge their ability in:

• Spatial Reasoning – This is how kids are able to visualise, picture and move shapes around.
• Verbal Reasoning – How children think and are able to carry out problem-solving with words.
• Quantitative Reasoning – This looks at how they are able to problem solve with numbers.
• Non-Verbal Reasoning– How kids think and problem solve with space and shapes.

Please see the file below to learn more about the benefits of CAT tests and how we will use the data to support our students.