WISC Practice Test for 8-year-olds

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) test is often used as an entrance exam for gifted and talented programs for determining cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and is individually administered, usually by a psychologist.

This comprehensive, clinical instrument assesses the cognitive intelligence of children aged 6 years 0 months through 16 years 11 months. The major difference between how the test is given to each age is the starting point of the test; older kids will start at more difficult sections of each subtest. The WISC-V is the updated version which has more interpretive power, is more user-friendly and is also more efficient.

Testingmom.com helps prepare your child for the WISC-V test by providing challenging questions and games, and by making learning interesting and fun for your eight-year-old! We have 100’s of practice tests and games that will fully prepare your child for the WISC-V. Below are a couple of examples of our practice questions.

1. Visual Spatial Reasoning – Visual Puzzle Question:

Subtest measures your child’s ability to analyze and synthesize visual-spatial information. Within 30 seconds, your child views a completed puzzle, then chooses the 3 pieces that, when combined, make up that puzzle. In some cases, 1 or more of the pieces will need to be “mentally rotated” to fit into the puzzle.

Parent Instructions
Parent, say to your child: “Look at the shape on top. That is a completed puzzle. Choose the 3 pieces below that combine to complete the puzzle.”
-As the puzzles get harder, your child may have to mentally rotate or flip 1 or more puzzle pieces to make it fit into the puzzle.
-Your child’s responses can be in any order.
-Your child can point to or say out loud the numbers that make up her answers.
-Your child must select 3 pieces. In some cases, 2 pieces might complete the puzzle, but that isn’t the correct answer. There will always be 3 pieces that combine to make up the puzzle.

*On the test, students have 30 seconds to answer. Timing starts from the end of the question asked. When you are practicing this skill, don’t worry about the timing. Your child will get faster with practice. Just know that this is a timed part of the test.

Answer: 1, 3, 5

2. Fluid Reasoning – Matrix Reasoning – Analogies

Parent Instructions
With each question, here is what you shoud say and do:
Do you see these 4 boxes? In the top row the pictures go together in a certain way.
(point to the two pictures on top and make sure your child sees how they go together).
Now look at the bottom row. Do you see the empty box? Which of the 4 pictures in the answer row (point to the answer row) goes with the picture in the bottom box the same way the 2 pictures in the tip row go together?

3. Verbal Comprehension – Comprehension

In this section, questions are asked to assess whether or not your child understands the information, social standards of behavior, and common sense that other kids her age generally understand.

Where your child is asked a “why” question, encourage her to focus on the most significant reason first, then to give additional information after. So, if you ask your child why you should brush your teeth, you want her to say (something like), “So you won’t get cavities” first and foremost. Then she might go on to say, “Plus brushing keeps your teeth healthy and it makes your breath smell good.” If she answers by saying, “to clean your teeth,” you’ll want to encourage her to say more. “Tell me more?” “What else can you tell me about why you brush your teeth?”

The most complete answers receive 2 points. Less complete answers get 1 point. That’s why you want your child to say as much as possible about any questions she is asked. These questions get progressively harder and are discontinued after your child scores “0” on 5 consecutive questions.

Why does an ambulance have a siren?

One-point answer: So cars will get out of the way.
Two-point answer: Cars will get out of the way so the ambulance can get to the hospital or to the hurt person very fast.

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14 Responses

gezisebale@yahoo.com

i need sample test

Dave

An ambulance has a siren so that “..the injured person … will know to get out of the way”. What in the name of sanity?

AA

Dave – it’s a typo. “So it can go very fast to get to the hospital FOR the injured person, and cars will know to get out of the way.”

Lilly

I wantdo this test

Diana

Dave and AA, they mean that they will be driving either to the hospital OR to wherever the injured person is.

TestingMom.com

Hi Diana, yes – that is what we meant. Thanks for clearing that up.

I edited the response for it to be a little more clear!

jennifer.lynn.braun1@gmail.com

2 point answer

s300050471@ddsbstudent.ca

2. Fluid Reasoning – Matrix Reasoning – Analogies . Is the sun

TestingMom.com

Thank you for reaching out to us. The correct answer is the oven. We are updating this on the site.

All the best,

Marcus

tma44@drexel.edu

I am not understanding how to access the sample WISC questions for an eight year old?

yunmeixu@gmail.com

Hi there,
My child took the CCAT and scored 95% and has been invited for additional testing. I wonder what are the ways your program can help. Thanks so much.

TestingMom.com

That’s a wonderful CCAT score for this test! Congrats! We can help boost the scores, call us for more info!

Irola

Plz help how can I prepare questions for testing my 8yrs old baby mental age… Help me

TestingMom.com

Hello,

Please reach out to our Parent Success Team at 877-609-6203 or help@testingmom.com. They are happy to help you find what questions to use.

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