There are different steps with the help of which the results of the CogAT exams can be easily assessed. Assessing the results helps to determine the future success of the students in various areas such as firstly verbal, secondly non-verbal and thirdly quantitative reasoning. This test is not called an IQ test and the students are also not marked on the basis of 100 marks. This exam results if assessed normally helps the parents and the teachers to assess and understand where and how the child is placed with reference to other children. Once the results of the child or the student is received from the testing agency, the parent or the teacher or the counselor of the child should review the results so that they can get hold of the key information i.e available in the results. This key information helps the individual to assess the performance and includes reviewing the percentile as well as the score profile of the student.
The second step is to understand the percentile that has been achieved by the child. One should know that percentile does not represent the marks received by the child out of 100. Rather it represents the percent of children that the child has surpassed in the exam when compared to all the children who appeared for the exam throughout the nation. This means that if the child scores 80 percentile, it means that he or she has performed better than 80{5d32d1469be2ae4f77f8b1291fb21496347e455b3f51f679616ec0f0713fb555} of the students who appeared for the exam nationwide and 20{5d32d1469be2ae4f77f8b1291fb21496347e455b3f51f679616ec0f0713fb555} of the children performed better than the child. It is also worth noting that 50 percentile represents the mid-range across the nation.
Once the percentile is analyzed, it is now important to understand the stanine cored by the student or the child. Stanine score is provided at a scale of 1 to 9 where 9 represent the highest result and 1 represents poor results. Stanine is provided to the students for all the different segments of the exam separately. So, it will be beneficial for the student to understand the strength and the weak areas of the student. After reviewing the Stanile, the profile of the student has to be looked into. The profile of the student will be a letter ranging from A to D which will help to understand the child’s strength as well as weakness.
Once, all the review is done, the next step is to provide all the information Interactive Profile Information System which will help you to receive the summary and review of the student’s results as well as advice and instructions for the development of the weak areas. For example, if the result received by your child is 6C(Q+V-), it means that the child has received a stanine of 6, then a profile of C, then a relative strength of Q+ and a relative weakness of V-. This means that the student has scored averagely overall, scored low in verbal reasoning and high in quantitative reasonings.