Before you choose the school, understand the child.
Your child sits a CAT4 cognitive assessment online. You get a plain-English profile of how they actually reason, and a 30-minute call with one of our academics who reads it with you and explains what it means for year placement, subject choice, and how much support they would really need. It costs €25, and the profile is yours to keep whether you enrol with us or not.
A real assessment
The CAT4 is used by selective and international schools worldwide. Around two hours online, in short sittings.
Someone reads it with you
A 30-minute call, one to one, with an Inventum academic. A report you cannot interpret is just a PDF.
Yours to keep
The written profile is yours whether you enrol here or not. Take it to any school, tutor or psychologist.
Three things for €25. The third is the one that matters.
The assessment gives you data. The profile makes it readable. The call is where it turns into decisions: which year, which subjects, how much support.
A real assessment
Your child takes the CAT4 online, in short sittings with breaks, whenever suits. Around two hours in total. It measures how they reason across verbal, non-verbal, quantitative and spatial areas, rather than what a particular syllabus happened to cover.
A profile in plain English
Strengths, watch-outs, and what the pattern means in practice for subjects, pace, confidence and support. Yours to keep whether you enrol here or not.
A 30-minute call with Edwin
One to one, at a time that works in your time zone. Edwin reads the profile with you and tells you what it means. If it points somewhere other than Inventum, he will say so.
Edwin Thijs
Inventum academic. Over 15 years of teaching across syllabi and examination boards.
Example profile
Illustration, not a real child
Spatial and non-verbal reasoning are the clear strengths here. On the call, we would talk about what that means for subject choice.
Verbal sits below the other three. For a child learning in a second language that is common, and we would read it in that light rather than as a ceiling.
CAT4 gives a Standard Age Score for each area. 100 is average for the child's age, and the shaded band (89–111) is where most children score.
You are being asked to decide a lot, on very little.
Which year they enter. Which subjects to commit to. Whether they need a teacher beside them every week or would do better left alone with the material. Most parents make those calls on a report card written by the school being judged. This gives you something to decide with.
- Which year they enter
- Whether they are ready for the year their age suggests, a year below, or further ahead than their last school placed them. Reasoning travels between curricula. A transcript does not.
- Which subjects to choose
- Where their reasoning is genuinely strongest, and which subject combinations tend to go badly for a profile like theirs.
- How much support to buy
- Whether they will thrive working independently or need scheduled teaching to hold momentum. This is the difference between the right package and an expensive guess.
- Where a gap might open
- Seeing a reasoning pattern early, before it shows up as a grade, gives you time to plan around it rather than react to it.
Common questions before you book.
What parents usually want to know before paying for the CAT4 profile and the 30-minute call.
Something else? Ask us at admin@inventumonline.com or +372 5723 7770.
What is the CAT4, exactly?
A standardised cognitive assessment used by selective and international schools worldwide. It measures reasoning across four areas (verbal, non-verbal, quantitative and spatial) rather than testing what your child has been taught.
Is it an IQ test?
No. It measures how your child approaches different kinds of problem, and it produces a profile rather than a single number. There is no pass mark and nothing to revise for.
How long does it take?
Around two hours in total, and it does not have to be done in one go. Short sittings with breaks generally give a more accurate picture than one long session.
English is not my child's first language. Does that skew the result?
It affects the verbal reasoning section, which is exactly why CAT4 reports all four areas separately rather than as one score. The non-verbal, quantitative and spatial results are unaffected, and we take language background into account when we read the profile with you.
Is the call a sales call?
No. It is 30 minutes about your child's results. If the profile suggests they would do better somewhere other than here (a school with a classroom in it, a different curriculum, a different year group), we will tell you that, and why. If you want to discuss enrolling at Inventum, you are welcome to raise it.
Do we have to enrol with Inventum?
No. The profile is built to be useful either way. If you do enrol, the €25 comes off your tuition.
Can this diagnose dyslexia or ADHD?
No. CAT4 is not a clinical assessment. It can show where a closer look might be warranted, which is often a useful first step, but a diagnosis requires an educational psychologist.
What if my child has an off day?
Tell us on the call. We read profiles in context, and a result that does not match what you see at home is itself worth discussing. Sometimes it is the most useful thing to come out of the session.
Can we use the report somewhere else?
Yes. It is yours to take to tutors, new schools, or an educational psychologist.
What happens to my child's data?
It is used to schedule, run and review the CAT4 profile with your family, and nothing else. We do not sell it, and we share it only with the assessment provider to run the test.