Cognitive Abilities & Reasoning Mock Test for 1st & 2nd Grade Gifted Screening Test Prep

Are you looking for a simple way to give your students extra practice with reasoning, patterns, logic, analogies, and problem solving?

I created this 44-question gifted screening practice test for 1st and 2nd grade students. I designed it to give students practice with different types of thinking questions they may encounter in gifted screening preparation, while keeping the questions short and student-friendly.

What's Inside?

This resource includes 44 practice questions covering several types of reasoning and thinking skills:

• Patterns & Visual Reasoning

• Visual Relationships

• Which One Doesn't Belong?

• Number Reasoning

• Analogies

• Logical Thinking

• Working Memory

• Problem Solving

Students will practice identifying patterns, finding relationships, recognizing differences, working with numbers, remembering information, and using clues to solve logical problems.

This Resource Includes:

• 44 reasoning and thinking questions (Multiple-choice format)

• A variety of question types

• Patterns and visual reasoning

• Verbal analogies

• Number reasoning and number patterns

• Logic and problem-solving questions

• Working memory practice

• Answer key

• Student-friendly printable format

• No-prep resource

Perfect For:

1st Grade (advanced level students) & 2nd Grade

This resource can be used for:

• Gifted screening practice

• Gifted assessment preparation

• Reasoning practice

• Critical thinking practice

• Thinking-skills practice

• Small-group practice

• Independent practice

• Homeschool enrichment

• Additional practice at home

How to use this test?

I created this mock test so it can be used in several different ways. You can give the complete test as a practice assessment, or you can use individual sections when you want students to work on a particular type of reasoning.

You can use it as:

• A gifted screening mock test

• A reasoning practice activity

• A quick enrichment assessment

• Small-group practice

• Independent work

• A warm-up or review activity

• Practice one section at a time

• Additional practice at home

The test can be completed in up to 60 minutes, depending on the student's pace.

What Skills Do Students Practice?

Throughout the resource, students get opportunities to practice:

• Pattern recognition

• Visual reasoning

• Verbal reasoning

• Analogies

• Number patterns

• Quantitative reasoning

• Logical thinking

• Working memory

• Problem solving

• Critical thinking

• Identifying relationships

• Recognizing similarities and differences

How Will It Help Teachers, Homeschoolers & Parents?

I designed this resource to make it easier to give young learners practice with different kinds of reasoning in one place.

Rather than focusing only on academic questions, this mock test includes patterns, analogies, logic, number relationships, working memory, and problem-solving questions. This makes it useful when you want students to practice different thinking skills in a single activity.

It can also be used as an enrichment activity for students who enjoy puzzles, patterns, and thinking questions.

Common Core Standards

This resource focuses primarily on reasoning, thinking, and problem-solving skills, so not every question aligns directly with a specific Common Core standard.

The number reasoning and problem-solving questions can support skills related to addition and subtraction, number relationships, and mathematical problem solving.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1 - Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve problems involving situations such as adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.D.8 - Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.B.2 - Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.5 - Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

The pattern, analogy, visual reasoning, working memory, and logic questions are intended primarily for enrichment and thinking-skills practice rather than direct Common Core instruction.

Please Note

This is an unofficial practice resource. It is not an official gifted assessment or gifted screening test and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any school district, testing organization, or assessment publisher.