The COOP is given each year in October or November to eighth-graders seeking admission to Catholic private schools.
The COOP lasts 2.5 hours and contains approximately 180 multiple-choice questions divided into 7 sections: Sequences, Analogies, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning—Words, Verbal Reasoning Context, Reading and Language Arts, and Mathematics.
Sequences
- Time: 15 minutes
- 20 multiple-choice questions
- Topics Tested: Ability to understand rules shown in patterns or sequences
Analogies
- Time: 7 minutes
- 20 multiple choice questions
- Topics Tested: Ability to detect relationships among picture pairs and apply to incomplete pairs.
Quantitative Reasoning
- Time: 15 minutes
- 20 multiple choice questions
- Topics Tested: Number relationships, visual problems, symbol relationships
Verbal Reasoning—Words
- Time: 15 minutes
- 20 multiple choice questions
- Topics Tested: Deductive reasoning, category analysis, relationship/pattern identification
Verbal Reasoning—Context
- Time: 15 minutes
- 20 multiple choice questions
- Topics Tested: Deductive reasoning
Reading and Language Arts
- Time: 40 minutes
- 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
- 40 multiple choice questions
- Topics Tested: Number relations and patterns, computation and operations, geometry and spatial sense, data analysis and probability, functions, and measurement
Your Score – Strategies
You receive one point for every question that you answer correctly on the COOP. There is no penalty for incorrect answers, and each question, regardless of how difficult it is, is worth only point.
The points you earn, known as your raw score, are tallied and then converted to a scaled score according to a formula determined by test developers. Converting raw scores to scaled scores allows schools to compare a student’s performance on one part of the exam with his or her performance on other parts that may have included a greater or lesser number of questions.
Finally, scaled scores are reported as percentile rank. Percentile rank shows where students stand in relationship to one another on various sections and on the test as a whole.
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