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My son's SAS (standard age scores) results for the CogAT were as follows:
V = 142
N = 142
Q = 136

Does anyone know how to calculate a composite CogAT score based on these SAS figures? We are not sure how to interpret his results. Thanks for any help.

CogAT norms are not generally accessible to the public. It is likely that his composite score is in the low 140s, though, which would put him in the top 1%. As to interpretation, he did very well on all three domains, though very slightly better in verbal and nonverbal than in quantitative. (I wouldn't consider it a significant difference.)

142 is the 99.6th %ile, on this test, which means that he did better than 996 out of 1000 other children his age would have been expected to do on this task. (In the top 4 out of 1000.)

136 is the 98.8th %ile, which means that he did better than 988 out of 1000 other children his age. (In the top 12 out of 1000, or top 1 out of 100.)

aeh: thank you so much for your very edifying response. We knew his scores were good, but really appreciate your detailing the specifics on his score as you did. Thanks again.