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Our test is not designed to differentiate at the higher end. If someone is scoring at the higher end they don�t have a cognitive skill problem. Since we cover several different areas beyond what a typical IQ test covers, each subtest would have had to be too long to have fidelity at the higher end. To keep the test length reasonable, our focus is to identify whether a student has any specific weak cognitive skills. Although the test will identify weak skills for any age person 7 and up, the focus is on younger children. Our test used to be 50-100% longer, depending upon the test, and children found it too long to stay engaged.



The purpose of our test is to identify if any key cognitive skills may be weak and holding back a student from achieving their best. I have known several students that had high average IQs yet struggled with learning. It took very expensive cognitive skill testing to find out which specific skills were weak. Our test is designed to make that process easy and affordable.