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40questions40minutesmultiple choice

Matched to the real test, question by question.

40 multiple-choice questions in 40 minutes — the NSW Selective Test's published shape, sampling the same mix of verbal reasoning, deductive puzzles, numerical logic, and spatial thinking as the Department of Education's published Thinking Skills papers.

Every paper is generated, sat, and hand-reviewed before it is published. If a question is wrong in timing, format, or difficulty, it is rewritten. If the paper does not feel like the real test, you have thirty days to say so and ask for a refund.

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  • OnlineAn online test mode built to feel like the real test. Timed, with a flag button, zoom, and a side panel for diagrams. Unlimited attempts with a pass, auto-scored with a weak-spot breakdown.
  • ReviewAfter each attempt, the review screen shows the correct answer and an explanation for every question.
  • EmailA copy of your link, so you can return to the online test at any time.

Three questions from this paper

Pulled straight from this paper, options and all. The correct answers appear in the review screen after you sit it.

  1. Q1

    An after-hours return chute at a toy library has no camera or counter. Staff have not watched it after closing.

    Pia: "No member of staff has seen anyone use the chute after closing, so it is never used then."

    Which one of these sentences shows the mistake that has been made?

    1. ASome members may return toys directly to the desk instead of using the chute.
    2. BThe chute may be used more often during opening hours than after closing.
    3. CPeople may have used the chute when no member of staff was watching.
    4. DThe library may lend more toys in school holidays than during term.
  2. Q2

    At a workshop, Coen, Nia, Sione, Sara and Hemi each wear one badge, either orange or violet, and visit exactly two different stations from robotics, jewellery, animation and photography.

    • Coen visits animation and photography.
    • Nia visits robotics and photography.
    • Sione visits photography.
    • Everyone wearing an orange badge visits robotics.
    • Exactly 2 of these 5 people wear an orange badge.

    Which statement must be true?

    1. ASara visits the photography station.
    2. BSara does not visit the robotics station.
    3. CNia wears a violet badge.
    4. DCoen wears a violet badge.
  3. Q3

    A survey records one choice from each of 300 people in four categories: novels, comics, poems, biographies. Exactly 51 choose novels, and 4 times as many choose poems as comics. Which set of pie-chart percentages could represent the survey?

    1. Anovels 17%, comics 12%, poems 49%, biographies 22%
    2. Bnovels 17%, comics 12%, poems 48%, biographies 23%
    3. Cnovels 17%, comics 13%, poems 48%, biographies 22%
    4. Dnovels 18%, comics 12%, poems 48%, biographies 22%
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