About the Advanced SCAT
Students in 6th-8th grade take the Advanced SCAT Test, an above-grade-level-test, in order to gain admissions to the John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program. The SCAT scores of 6th graders are compared to a general 8th grade level while the scores of 7th and 8th graders are compared to a general 12th grade level.
Test Format & Content
The CTY SCAT Test assesses quantitative and verbal reasoning abilities. 6th-8th graders take the Advanced SCAT, which has questions designed for 9th-12th grade students. The test includes two sections, comprised of 55 multiple choice questions* each. Students have 22 minutes to complete each section, with a 10 minute break in between, for a total of 54 minutes.
*Five of the questions in each section are experimental and it is unknown which are the experimental questions.
The verbal section of the SCAT assesses the student’s understanding of word definitions and consists of verbal reasoning analogy questions.
The SCAT quantitative section assesses how well the student is able to work with numbers and consists of multiple-choice mathematical comparisons, displaying two quantities, of which the students needs to determine which of the two is greater.
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