Welcome, we recommend reviewing the free sample cat4 test examples for your child’s age, and then buying the corresponding cat4 practice test (in the right hand column). 

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Free CAT4 Sample Tests by ageAll CAT4 Practice Test Packs
Sample CAT4 test Year 4, CAT4 sample Level ACAT4 Year 4 Test Practice, Level A CAT4 practice
Free CAT4 test sample Year 5, CAT4 sample Level BYear 5 CAT4 Practice Test, Level B CAT4 practice
Sample CAT4 test Year 6, Level C sample CAT4 CAT4 Test Practice Year 6, Level C cat 4 practice
Free CAT4 sample Year 7, CAT 4 sample Level DYear 7 CAT4 Practice Test, Level D cat4 practice
Sample CAT4 Year 8, CAT4 sample Level ECAT4 Year 8 Test Practice, Level E CAT4 practice
Free sample CAT4 Test Year 9, sample cat4 Level FYear 9 CAT4 Practice Tests, Level F CAT4 practice
Free sample CAT4 Test Year 10, cat sample Level FYear 10 CAT4 Practice Tests, Level F CAT practice 
Sample CAT4 Test Year 11, CAT4 sample Level GCAT4 Test Practice Year 11, Level G CAT4 practice
CAT4 practice tests by school year.

We recommend that you find and review the cat test sample for your specific age. Then purchase the corresponding full CAT4 practice test set. Here is our helpful cat 4 guide listing cat samples ages 4 to 11 years:

FREE CAT4 test practice and CAT4 test samples 

Our site offers THE MOST accurate CAT4 test practice materials you will find online.

Free sample CAT4 test sections.

This is because it is bespoke for each age specific CAT4 exam format. From cat4 Year 2 to cat 4 YEar 11. In other words, this cat practice is targeted for the different cat 4 difficulty levels for your child’s age.

These practice papers offer you the most comprehensive and accurate CAT4 test practice

Here’s the Year 2 CAT4 practice test.

CAT4 Year 3 tests

  • Year 3 CAT 4 Level Y. is less widely used.
  • The equivalent US/international CAT 4 test is the Grade 2 CAT4 test.


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Each of these CAT4 levels practice will effectively prepare your child for the CAT4 exam.





Planning your CAT4 test practice step-by-step


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      1. Establish How to interpret a CAT 4 results report.


      1. Learn what the different CAT 4 sections look like.


      1. Practice with the correct year CAT 4 test for your own child.


    Sample CAT 4 sample


    Here is our free CAT4 paper sample.

    How is the CAT4 scored?

        • The Standard Age Score (SAS) is the most important piece of information derived from any standardized test.


        • This is based on the student’s raw score which has been adjusted for age.


        • Then placed on a scale that makes a comparison with a nationally representative sample of students who tool the same CAT4 exam.


        • These are representative CAT4 samples drawn from schools across the UK.

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      How school teachers apply your child’s CAT4 results in the classroom

       

      Why is the CAT4 the most widely used standardized school assessment?

      The CAT4 assessment is substantially different from any other curriculum and familiarizing students with the CAT4 testing material before the exam is extremely important. To assist the students to gain good scores, our online CAT4 prep program offers CAT 4 test prep packs for Level A, B, C, D, E, F and G that will all contain sample questions, detailed explanations and practice tests.

      It is also to be noted that there is a significant difference between CAT4 and the regular curriculum program.

      Hence, we believe that it’s vital to provide students with testing material before the exam.

      How do schools use CAT4 results?

      • Most schools inform parents about CAT4 tests in advance.
      • As a result, parents get to know their plans and expectations from students.

      How is the CAT4 scored?

        • The Standard Age Score (SAS) is the most important piece of information derived from any standardised test.


        • This is based on the student’s raw score which has been adjusted for age.


        • Then placed on a scale that makes a comparison with a nationally representative sample of students.


          • These are of the same age and come from schools across the UK.

      Why does my child need to practice CAT4?

      Well, the CAT4 is substantially different from any other curriculum so familiarising students with the testing material before the exam is extremely important. School Entrance Tests believe that all CAT4 test takers should be able to benefit from our:

      • Provision of all CAT4 students with the latest 2023 CAT4 sample papers.


        • CAT4 exam preparation.


        • The latest CAT4 practice testing material for their specific age.


        • CAT4 test questions and CAT4 test tips.


      CAT4 is the best standardised school assessment


      The CAT4 is substantially different from any other curriculum and familiarizing students with the testing material before the exam is extremely important. To assist the students to gain good scores, the online prep program offers CAT4 practice packs for Level A, B, C, D, E, F and G that will all contain sample questions, detailed explanations and practice tests.


      It is also to be noted that there is a significant difference between CAT4 and the regular curriculum program. As a result, it becomes important to provide students with testing material before the exam.


      Free sample CAT4 test results report for parents.

      How do schools use CAT4 results?

      • Most schools inform parents about CAT4 tests in advance.


        • As a result, parents get to know their plans and expectations from students.
        • Individual reports to parents show the performance of their children across the four batteries.


        • Consequently, schools present results to parents and students using the Stanines (ST) since it is easy to comprehend.







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      How to maximize CAT4 skills learning in three easy steps


      To get the best from your CAT4 test practice, we advise you to follow these CAT4 revision steps:

      • Firstly, review our detailed CAT 4 test samples to learn the CAT4 item / CAT4 section composition of an actual CAT4 assessment.
      • In reviewing our CAT4 sample questions, learn where your CAT4 learning is stalling. More specifically, which types of CAT4 question in which of the eight CAT4 sections you fin the most challenging. 
      • Over time, with continual CAT 4 practice, you will learn how to answer even the most difficult question types. 
      • Why is such focussed CAT4 test practice necessary? steps?

        • To learn where they are going wrong and what to do differently.
        • Keeping motivated.
        • Mastering such difficulties will improve their self-efficacy.
        •  If you are lucky then your child will start to love learning! Either way, this approach will help to create a growth mindset.


        As a final stage, paying for a CAT4 assessment mock is an ideal way to establish how your child is to pass their actual CAT4 assessment.

        Maximizing your CAT4 test practice sessions


        To get the best from your CAT4 test practice, we advise you to:


            • Replicate as closely as possible an actual CAT4 assessment environment.


            • Leverage the value of CAT4 sample questions to establish where your child may be going wrong.


            • Monitor your child’s CAT4 progress. You can easily track their revision progress by checking how quickly their CAT4 assessment results improve.


            • Then you must focus on the CAT4 subtest or CAT4 question type that they are struggling most with.


            • Next, you can try assigning more CAT4 assessment sample questions of their weaker topics. Focusing their CAT4 test practice on your child’s weaker topics will encourage them to slowly learn where they are going wrong and what to do differently.


            • Mastering such difficulties will improve their self-efficacy. If you are lucky then your child will start to love learning! Either way, this approach will help to create a growth mindset.


            • As a final stage, paying for a CAT4 assessment mock is an ideal way to establish how your child is to pass their actual CAT4 assessment.


          Why do schools use the CAT 4?


          The CAT4 tests range was published a decade ago. GL Education‘s CAT 4 assessment series has become increasingly popular, especially for streaming. Other popular CAT 4 applications are to:


              • Explore academic potential. More specifically, the CAT4 assessments


              • Create uniformity and consistency across each primary/secondary school’s year group


              • Benchmark internationally any individual pupils’ attainment


              • Reveal any disparity between a CAT4 test-taker’s ability and school achievement to date.


              • Whenever there’s inappropriate progress, then further CAT4 analysis is required. Or immediate curriculum changes.


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              Cognitive ability testing with GL Education’s CAT4

              GL Education’s Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT4) and LASS help the school ensure that every child achieves their potential in the classroom.

              The CAT4’s verbal, non-verbal, quantitative and spatial ability tasks are used as a starting point to provide teachers with information on children’s:

              • Strengths;
              • Learning preferences; and
              • Weaknesses.

              GL Education recommends that any school using the CAT4 analyses those CAT4 results on a regular basis. Such CAT4 analyses should then be discussed at a CAT4 progress meeting. Attainment CAT4-related questions include,

              • Who is achieving in line with their individual CAT4 predictions?
              • Who’s not achieving as per their CAT4 predicted results?
              • Do the school’s CAT4 results exhibit any gender bias. If so, how should the school respond?

              For those attainment areas that are lower than the CAT4  predicts, a school should then implement an ‘graduated response’ strategy.

              If attainment isn’t aligned with CAT4 scores or there is a discrepancy of more than 20 points between the individual strands of CAT4, the school applies their

              GL Education consultants follow a well-established flow chart, which includes appropriate cognitive assessments, like GL Education’s CAT4.

              Educational targets are shared with parents; with any confidential info held by counsellors marked as such on those children’s folder (with emotional or social concerns).

              How should I prepare for the CAT4?

              Well, here’s how GL Assessment introduce their CAT4:

              Which skills does the CAT4 assess?


              The CAT4 requires knowledge of Literacy skills , Numeracy skills and Abstract reasoning skills.


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              What are the CAT4 spatial reasoning test questions like?


              In the CAT4 spatial reasoning questions you have to manipulate 2D and 3D shapes. So similar to the non-verbal reasoning questions in that sense.
              You need to identify each of the different set of shapes’ patterns. In other words the relationships between them. How they relate to each other.


              Explaining CAT4 questions on 2D shape combinations


              CAT4 TEST INSTRUCTIONS – Find which shapes can be combined to create the full picture you’ve been presented with in each CAT4 spatial reasoning question.


              Take a look at this example question. Which of the options below, makes up the top shape?


              Spatial-reasoning-test


              Explaining CAT4 questions on Analysing the Mirror Image Matching 2D Shapes


              CAT4 TEST INSTRUCTIONS – Find which two shapes are identical in each CAT4 spatial reasoning question.


              Regardless of the perspective / angle shown, identify which two 2D shapes are equivalent.


              Explaining CAT4 questions on Analysing the Mirror Image


              CAT4 TEST INSTRUCTIONS – Find the exact mirror image for each CAT4 spatial reasoning question.


              spatial reasoning practice test


              Explaining CAT4 questions requiring 3D Cube construction


              CAT4 TEST INSTRUCTIONS – Find for each CAT4 spatial reasoning question:


                  • The marking which is the exact opposite of the one that is presented in the question.  


                  • or if it’s a flattened out 3D cube, then you must choose which of the answer options represents the fully reconstructed cube. So, when in three dimensions in other words.


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                Explaining CAT4 question types involving Solid 2D and 3D shapes


                INSTRUCTIONS – Find for each CAT4 spatial reasoning question, you must determine which 3D shape is equivalent to the unmade one presented. So, in other words, which of the folded up shapes is represented by the unfolded shape in the questions.


                Spatial reasoning test


                Other key CAT 4 things you need to know


                    • There are different versions of the CAT4 test, depending on your child’s age.


                      • The CAT4 test is divided into 8 modules. These vary in length. The shortest modules are 8 minutes long and the longest modules are 10 minutes long.
                        The 8 modules are split across 4 types of Reasoning: Verbal, Non-Verbal, Spatial and Quantitative. Each of these is equally weighted when calculating your child’s final score.


                        • CAT4 Verbal Reasoning modules are called Verbal Classification and Verbal Analogies.


                          • The CAT4 Non-Verbal Reasoning modules are called Figure Classification and Figure Matrices.


                            • CAT4 Spatial Reasoning modules are called Figure Analysis and Figure Recognition.


                              •  The CAT4 Quantitative Reasoning modules are called Number Series and Number Analogies. Number Series involves completing sequences. Number Analogies involves completing a third pair of number analogies.


                                • CAT4 assessment is not adaptive. This means there is no negative marking so you should encourage your child to answer every question. If they find themselves out of time in a module with a few questions to spare, it’s better that they guess and supply an answer for each question rather than leave the last few blank.


                                    • Most children find one or two of the four types of Reasoning harder than the others. That’s why we recommend taking

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