CAT Test

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can anyone pls tell me about cat test given to students starting in year 7
thank you
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DrFluffy

CAT, or SATS?

cooksie_2

my daughter did hers last year, said that they had maths questions, including symetry,shapes,patterns, word problems,some multiple choice they are used to determine which sets the children are placed into for the subjects.Hope that helps.

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cooksie wrote:

my daughter did hers last year, said that they had maths questions, including symetry,shapes,patterns, word problems,some multiple choice they are used to determine which sets the children are placed into for the subjects.Hope that helps.

does one need to prepare the children for this as i have been told in the schoolmy son is going into in sept that the cats test will be the week they resume
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Lord_Chris

cat tests never matter... there another waste of time in schools like the Key Stage exams.

dont worry about them, none of my schools ever took them seriously. I've heard some schools use them to determine which tier groups the student goes into, BUT my school never did this, and just did it based on the students performance in class, and i suspect most schools follow suit.

Cats are a government requirements. Says it all really.

Lord_Chris

ohh, and cats are often done between september and october. New schools use them as a guide to new students. You can't really prepare your son for them, and even if he was really bright and did terribly, it is unlikely he would be in the wrong tier group for long.

as i remember (and it is a few years ago now ) the cats include maths, spatial awareness and logic problems.

nige

Well, it depends on the school, CAT tests don't really count for anything, but we did them just before a school change (middle to upper, three school system) and they were used along with teacher recommendation to decide which sets we were put in for each subject. Obviously after year nine they reorganise for GCSEs anyway to try and get the highest results possible for the school. There isn't really a lot you could do to prepare from what I remember (I did mine about 7 years ago now), mostly basic Maths and Science questions, a small ammount of English writing (I think) to check handwriting and associating words (similar meanings) and spellings, then some pattern type questions, sort of like an IQ test, mostly if not all were multiple choice, our scores were even given as an IQ for each section, lowest was about 105 for me and my Maths/Patterns stuff was just labelled 130+ (I remember this because I was the only person in my school they could not measure on their scale).

I suppose if you want to prepare someone for these the best way would probably be to go on the BBC Test The Nation (or another IQ test type site) and do a test, it should have similar pattern type questions in it (used to anyway) and possibly some other helpful ones.

Darksun

Absolutly irrelevant :cool:

nige

yep, sorry about that, just trying to remember about those tests, got me thinking and typing everything. Anyway like I said, no preperation needed, basic IQ tests or pattern type questions like "Which of the following shapes could be folded to form a cube?" or "Which two of the following 3D objects are just rotations of one another?" and a basic knowledge of what words have similar meanings could help but in no way is it needed.