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Memory subtests include Verbal Memory and Nonverbal Memory. [1] Included within the RIAS is the Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test ( RIST ), a quick screener that consists of two RIAS subtests (Guess What and Odd-Item Out) and takes less time to complete than the RIAS.
Verbal reasoning tests of intelligence provide an assessment of an individual's ability to think, reason and solve problems in different ways. For this reason, verbal reasoning tests are often used as entrance examinations by schools, colleges and universities to select the most able applicants.
The equivalent test in the UK is the CAT4 test run by GL Assessment and consists of a battery of 4 individual tests; Verbal Reasoning, Non-Verbal Reasoning, Spatial Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning. CAT4 is used as an admission test and also by schools to determine potential (gifted or weaker children).
The test purports to assess students' acquired reasoning abilities while also predicting achievement scores when administered with the co-normed Iowa Tests. The test was originally published in 1954 as the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test, after the psychologists who authored the first version of it, Irving Lorge and Robert L. Thorndike. [1]
The Otis-Lennon is group-administered (except preschool), multiple choice, taken with pencil and paper, measures verbal, quantitative, and spatial reasoning ability. The test yields verbal and nonverbal scores, from which a total score is derived, called a School Ability Index (SAI).
The Morrisby Profile [1] [2] is a matched series of timed cognitive aptitude tests. The current version is screen-based and was first published in 2014. In this version, five different aptitudes are assessed: verbal, numerical, abstract, spatial and mechanical. The assessments each present a series of items and the candidate selects their ...
The verbal-oriented score is calculated as follows: 60% for the verbal reasoning section, while the quantitative reasoning and English domains are weighted at 20% each. Each academic institution can select which score to consider for admissions to their departments.
The verbal skills tested on in this test are not only featured in the TACHS, but also in other standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GRE, etc. The verbal skills section of the test includes: Word Roots, World Lists, Synonyms and Antonyms, Verbal Reasoning, and so forth.