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Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
Purpose: To assess key skills needed for success in law school. Measures: Reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning.
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
Purpose: To measure intelligence and cognitive abilities. Measures: Five factors of cognitive ability—fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, and working memory.
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
Purpose: To determine qualification for enlistment in the United States Armed Forces. Measures: Word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, and mathematics knowledge, among other subjects.
Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
Purpose: To assess the general academic readiness for graduate-level work. Measures: Verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing skills.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
Purpose: To assess the intelligence of children between ages 6 and 16. Measures: Similar to WAIS, verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed.
Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities
Purpose: To assess cognitive strengths and weaknesses. Measures: General intellectual ability, specific cognitive abilities, scholastic aptitude, and oral language.
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)
Purpose: To assess and compare the reading ability of students internationally. Measures: Reading comprehension and literacy of fourth-grade students.
American College Testing (ACT)
Purpose: To measure high school students' readiness for college. Measures: English, mathematics, reading, science, and an optional writing test.
Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
Purpose: To assess problem solving, critical thinking, and knowledge of natural, behavioral, and social science concepts and principles prerequisite to the study of medicine. Measures: Biological and biochemical foundations of living systems, chemical and physical foundations of biological systems, psychological, social, and biological foundations of behavior, and critical analysis and reasoning skills.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Purpose: To assess the intelligence and cognitive ability of adults. Measures: Verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed.
Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
Purpose: To assess a student's readiness for college. Measures: Reading, writing and language, math, and an optional essay.
Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
Purpose: To assess analytical thinking and reasoning through analogies. Measures: Critical thinking and analytical problem solving.
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