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NGAT Practice for Peel Grade 4 Students
Twenty questions. One report. Find out where your child's reasoning actually stands — free.
Your child writes the NGAT this fall. You've been told it measures thinking rather than knowledge, which is true — and also means there's no textbook to open. So start with the only question worth answering first: how does your child handle these question types right now?
20 free questions for Peel Grade 4
Matched to Grade 4 and Peel. Plus a report showing where the reasoning broke.
Screen capture: a question being answered, then the explanation
How it works
Tell us the board and grade
Takes 30 seconds, no card.
Your child answers 20 questions
About 15 minutes, timed like the real test.
You get the gap report
Tonight, not after a scheduled call.
Decide from there
The full pack is $59 if you want it, and nothing happens if you don't.
Who we are
North Star Contests is a registered Canadian not-for-profit. We run math contests and daily reasoning practice for students in Grades 1–8, all year — gifted screening prep is one part of that. We write our own questions.
What the NGAT actually measures
Verbal reasoning
Verbal analogies · Verbal classification · Sentence completion
Each asks your child to spot the relationship or rule connecting a set of words.
Quantitative reasoning
Number analogies · Number series · Equation building
Each asks your child to find the numeric relationship or missing operation in a short sequence.
Nonverbal reasoning
Figure matrices · Figure classification · Paper folding
Each asks your child to spot a visual rule and apply it to a new figure.
The NGAT is administered to Grade 4 students at school in the fall, by teachers, online. Results are filed in the student record and used as part of the board's process for identifying students who may benefit from gifted programming. Families may opt out by contacting their school.
What your child will see
Grade 4, Peel District School Board.
Boards & timing
Peel administers the NGAT at Grade 4, in the fall, at school and online.
Question types
The NGAT covers verbal, quantitative and nonverbal reasoning.
What tends to be hardest
Figure matrices that combine two rules at once tend to be hardest at this age — spotting one pattern is easy, holding two in mind together is the harder skill.
What a question looks like
Original questions written by us — never reproduced from any published test.
Nonverbal reasoning · Figure matrix
Which figure completes the pattern?
Answer: a square rotated 120°, roughly 8px across.
Each row rotates the shape a fixed amount moving right, and each column shrinks the shape moving down. The missing figure continues both patterns at once — the reasoning skill is holding two rules in mind together, not recognizing either one alone.
Quantitative reasoning · Number series
What number comes next?
Answer: 42
The gap between terms grows by two each time: +4, +6, +8, +10, then +12. Spotting that the differences themselves form a pattern is the actual skill — the numbers are just small enough that a child can check it by hand.
20 free questions for Peel Grade 4
Matched to Grade 4 and Peel. Plus a report showing where the reasoning broke.
You don't need five thousand questions tonight
Other programs
The whole library
5,000 questions, all at once
≈ you decide where to start
North Star
The next 20
custom picked for your child from ~2,000
≈ 20 minutes a day
Other programs hand you a library — thousands of practice questions, worksheets, games, hours of video — and leave you to work out where to start. Your child has a few weeks and a bedtime.
We have close to 2,000 questions too. Your child just never sees them all at once. Each session serves a short set of one question type, chosen for their grade and board, and the next set adjusts to how the last one went. Small doses, no wall of questions, no fatigue.
When your child gets one wrong, there's an explanation right there — so the evening ends with something learned instead of a parent who also doesn't know why the answer was C.
Start with twenty, free, and see where the gaps are before deciding whether you need the rest.
What you get back
After the twenty questions, you get a report — not a score. It shows which question types your child moved through easily, which ones slowed them down, and where the reasoning came apart. Timing included, because pacing is most of the difficulty.
Reasoning report — sample
It's the thing most parents actually want and can't get anywhere else: a clear picture of how their child thinks, before test day decides it for them.
Does preparation help?
Peel's letter to families says no preparation is necessary for the NGAT. We think that's right about content. There is nothing to memorise — no vocabulary list, no formula sheet — and any program promising to raise your child's score is overpromising.
Familiarity is a different thing. A child who has never seen a figure matrix under time pressure spends the first minutes working out what is being asked. A child who has seen the format spends those minutes answering. Neither child reasons better than the other. One is simply less surprised.
That is all we offer, and we think it is the honest version of what a parent can reasonably do.
Why a worksheet won't show you what you need to know
You see where the reasoning breaks, not just what was wrong
A PDF tells you the answer was incorrect. The platform shows which step the thinking came apart on.
Adaptive, not repetitive
Questions adjust to what your child already handles, so time goes to the question types that are genuinely unfamiliar.
Timed the way the real thing is
Pacing is most of the difficulty. Practice on paper, with a parent nearby and no clock, doesn't rehearse the actual conditions.
Free to start — twenty questions, then decide
No commitment up front. See the report before deciding whether the full pack is worth it.
Try a sample question
A short adaptive set, the same format your child will see in the full pack.
Interactive reasoning sample — component to be embedded.
What's included
Everything is matched to your board and your child's grade. Nothing here is a generic North American test-prep library.
Board-matched question sets
Questions selected for Peel and the NGAT format — not a generic set stretched across every test in North America.
Adaptive question selection
The platform reads what your child already handles and spends their time on the question types that are genuinely unfamiliar.
Gap report for parents
After every session: which question types were solid, which slowed them down, where the reasoning came apart. Timing included.
Step-by-step explanations
Every question has a worked explanation — so when your child gets one wrong at 8pm, the evening ends with something learned.
Printable question sets
Prefer paper? Every set can be printed, so practice doesn't have to mean more screen time.
Timed practice
Sessions run under the same time pressure as the real test, because pacing is most of the difficulty.
One purchase, every child
The full pack covers every child in your family — not per-student pricing.
What it costs
Most NGAT programmes won't tell you until you book a call. Here's ours.
Free
$0
✓ 20 questions matched to Grade 4 and Peel
✓ A gap report showing where the reasoning held and where it didn't
✓ No card, no call, no scheduling
Full Test Prep Pack
$59 CAD one-time
✓ Close to 2,000 questions, served a short set at a time
✓ Three months of access, timed to your testing window
✓ Step-by-step explanations on every question
✓ Every child in your family included
✓ No subscription, no renewal
That's the whole price. There's no upsell, no per-child fee and nothing to cancel.
Frequently asked questions
20 free questions for Peel Grade 4
Matched to Grade 4 and Peel. Plus a report showing where the reasoning broke.