Understanding the Assessment

This assessment uses 102 visual puzzles to explore how your child thinks. There are no word problems, no reading passages, and no time pressure for younger children. Every question is a picture, a pattern, or a visual puzzle that a child can engage with directly.

The questions measure four cognitive abilities that appear consistently across major frameworks in cognitive science, including the Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) model used in most modern intelligence research. These aren't random puzzle categories — they represent distinct ways the brain processes information, and each one matters for learning and development.

Rather than producing a single number, the assessment generates a four-factor profile showing your child's relative strengths across Pattern Recognition, Visual Puzzles, Picture Logic, and Number Sense. Scores are grouped into five performance bands — from Developing through Exceptional — based on percentage correct.

The real insight isn't any single score. It's the pattern. A child who excels at visual-spatial tasks but finds number reasoning harder has a meaningfully different profile from a child who scores evenly across the board — and that difference points toward specific strategies for support.