Book excerpt: This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). It is an above-grade level test that assesses math and verbal reasoning abilities among gifted children and assesses students at a higher grade level than the one they are in at the time the test is administered. Elementary SCAT tests are designed at grades 4 and 5. The two sections for testing math and verbal reasoning are each 22-minutes long separated by a 10-minutes break and there are 55 multiple-choice questions per section.