CogAT Level 8 · 2nd grade
By Gradecairn Publications
Gradecairn Publications makes practice workbooks for gifted and talented test prep. Our first practice workbook is for the CogAT Level 8, the level for 2nd grade. Every question was written for the book, every answer is explained, and a free online check shows which question types your child should practice next.
Inside the book
The book has 426 practice questions in short sections. Each section opens with a worked example, so you and your child can try one together before the real ones. No reading is needed: an adult reads every direction aloud.
The answer key
Turn to the back and each answer comes with a plain explanation, written so a parent can talk a hard puzzle through with a 7-year-old. See how every answer is checked.
Try one
Tap the circle under the picture you pick. It is marked at once, with the reason. The free check does this for every question in the book.
Figure Matrices · question 1
The answer is A. Look at the top row: 1 shape becomes 4 shapes. Do the same to the bottom picture.
Our first book
Gifted and Talented Grade 2 Test Prep, 2027-2028 edition. Coming to Amazon. Books for more grades are on the way.
2027-2028 edition · 180 pages · 8.5 x 11 in
Practice for the CogAT Level 8 in 2nd grade: 426 picture, number, and shape questions and 2 full-length practice tests, with an answer key that explains every answer.
Finished a practice test in the book? Open the free answer check, choose your book and the test, and tap the A, B or C your child picked for each question. It marks every answer and lists the question types to go back to, weakest first, with the book pages.
You get no score, no percentile and no IQ. There is no sign-up, and the answers stay in your browser tab.
Open the free answer checkEvery question was written for our book. None is taken from a real test, so a practice test shows your child the question formats and does not predict a score.
Every shape and number question was built from rules and solved by a separate computer check, which confirmed exactly one right answer. Each question was then read for wording and for fairness to a 7-year-old.
Before release, the whole book was answered cold from the printed pages. Every answer in the key comes with a plain explanation, so you can talk a hard puzzle through with your child.
Read how we check every workbook, with what each check found in the Grade 2 book.
The CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test) is a reasoning test that many schools use to help find children for gifted and talented programs. It has three parts, Verbal, Quantitative and Nonverbal, with three question types in each. At Level 8 the test has 156 questions. It is published by Riverside Insights.
It measures verbal, quantitative and spatial reasoning. Riverside's guide for teachers says these abilities help a child learn new tasks and solve problems. From kindergarten to 2nd grade no reading is needed: an adult reads every direction aloud, and every answer is a picture, a shape or a number.
Riverside Insights, the publisher, describes the CogAT as a test of reasoning abilities, and its guide for teachers does not call it an IQ test. Our books and our answer check never give an IQ, a percentile or a score.
Ask your school which scores its gifted program looks at, because we cannot answer that for every school. Our practice tests were written for our books, so they cannot predict a real score, and we do not try to.
Do one short section at a time and read its worked example together first. When your child is ready, sit a full practice test, go over the explanations, and then use the free online answer check to see which question types need more work.
The level follows your child's grade when they sit the test. Kindergarten takes Level 5/6, 1st grade takes Level 7, and 2nd grade takes Level 8. Our Grade 2 book covers Level 8 only. Level 9, for 3rd grade, uses written words and equations, so the book does not fit it.
