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Cornell Critical Thinking Tests

If you’re wondering if you should nominate your child for gifted program testing pretesting them with the Cornell Critical Thinking Test may help.

Cornell Critical Thinking Tests develop a clear picture of your students' critical thinking abilities. The tests can be used to teach critical thinking skills and to predict students' performance on state achievement tests and in testing for gifted or honors programs. 

If your child is going to be taking a test for gifted or honors placement the Cornell Critical Thinking Test is a real, timed, normed test (not a practice test) which you can use for preparation.

Level X is recommended for use in Grades 4 and up.

Level Z is aimed at advanced and gifted high school students, college students, graduate students, and other adults. 

The specimen set contains

  • One Level X test
  • One Level Z test
  • One Administration Manual
  • One answer sheet (bubble sheet)

 


Spectrum Test Practice 

Spectrum Test Practice Grade 1 

For younger children the Spectrum Test Practice series can be used in a similar way.  They’re not real, normed tests, but use them with your child and you’ll quickly get an idea of what they do and don’t know and how they manage listening attentively to instructions.

 

  


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