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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes it's timed and it's mostly a test on intuition (especially for non-verbal questions, e.g., paper folding). For verbal questions, a wide vocabulary can help a bit.

Tell your kids to try to do questions fast (opposite strategy to MAP test). If not sure, select the one that looks most correctly to them. I remotely remember that student can go back and revisit a question in each battery, but once a battery is done, they cannot go back.

3rd grade CoGAT doesn't factor into CES selection this year, so there's no-string attached to the results. Whether it would be used 2-3 years later for MS magnet selection, who knows. It's a good test to really find what your kid is good at. My son did great at this test, got accepted to CES and magnet all the way through, advanced in every magnet STEM course, but still struggled in ELA classes at HS because lack of intuition about understanding the embedded information or mood between words. My daughter did bad in paper folding (i.e., lacking spatial reasoning skills), but never find geometry a hard course later on. So my point is, don't over-interpret the score of this test. [/quote]

Has the criteria for CES for next year been released yet?  Can you share it?[/quote]

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