The Cognitive Abilities Test for screening GT (gifted and talented) students is a multiple choice test to measure a student's abilities in verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and nonverbal reasoning. There are nine sub-tests that comprise of three batteries.

• Verbal reasoning tests a student's ability in reading and comprehension skills, literal understanding, and use of words with an emphasis on logical reasoning, using words by classification, analogies, and under sentence context. It is made up of three sub-tests.
  • verbal classification
  • sentence completion
  • verbal analogies
• Quantitative reasoning tests a student's ability in understanding the elements of number theory and the application and analysis of number problems with emphasis on reasoning by quantitative comparison, pattern recognition, and arithmetic operations. It is also composed of three sub-tests.
  • Quantitative relations
  • Number series
  • Equation building
• Nonverbal (figure) reasoning tests a student's ability in spatial and abstract thinking. This reasoning is to measure how well a student solves problems using shapes and figures with emphasis on reasoning by figure classification, analogies, and analysis. It is also composed of three sub-tests.
  • Figure classification
  • Figure analogies
  • Figure analysis