Subtest

Levels 5/6–8

Levels 9–17/18

Subtest 1: Picture/Verbal Analogies*

Each question shows a 2 x 2 matrix with three pictures and one empty cell. Students examine the two pictures in the top row to determine how they are related. Then they apply this relationship to the picture in the bottom row and choose the answer that generates a second pair of pictures related to each other in the same way as the first pair.

First students examine a pair of words and think of ways in which they are related. Then students apply this relationship to a third word to generate a new pair of words that goes together in the same way. Finally students select the best answer choice or, if none seems correct, they look for a different way in which the first two words are related.

Subtest 2: Sentence Completion

Students listen to a sentence or a question the teacher reads in English or Spanish and then select the picture that best completes the sentence or answers the question.

Students read an incomplete sentence and then select the answer choice that best completes the sentence.

Subtest 3: Picture/Verbal Classification*

Students first examine three pictures in the top row of each question and think of ways in which the pictures are alike. Then the students select the answer picture that belongs in the same group.

Students examine three words and think of ways in which they are alike. Then students select an answer choice that belongs in the same group.

*Picture Analogies, Picture Classification at Levels 5/6–8; Verbal Analogies, Verbal Classification at Levels 9–17/18