Test Overview
The COOP lasts 2 and a half hours and contains approximately 180 multiple—choice questions divided into 7 subtests: Sequences, Analogies, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning—Words, Verbal Reasoning—Context, Reading and Language Arts, and Mathematic.
Sequences
| Time: | 15 minutes |
| Format: | 20 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Ability to understand rules shown in patterns or sequences |
Analogies
| Time: | 7 minutes |
| Format: | 20 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Ability to detect relationships among picture pairs and apply to incomplete pairs |
Quantitative Reasoning
| Time: | 15 minutes |
| Format: | 20 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Number relationships, visual problems, symbol relationships |
Verbal Reasoning—Words
| Time: | 15 minutes |
| Format: | 20 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Deductive reasoning, category analysis, relationship/pattern identification |
Verbal Reasoning—Context
| Time: | 15 minutes |
| Format: | 20 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Deductive reasoning |
Reading and Language Arts
| Time: | 40 minutes |
| Format: | 40 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Ability to understand central meanings and details of reading passages, understand sentence and paragraph structure, and grammar |
Mathematics
| Time: | 35 minutes |
| Format: | 40 multiple-choice questions |
| Topics Tested: | Number relations and patterns, computation and operations, geometry and spatial sense, data analysis and probability, functions, and measurement |
