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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.

— Made and reviewed in Sydney.

What you get

  • 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

    A technician tests 6 radios. Exactly two disjoint pairs interfere with each other: four radios belong to those pairs, and the remaining radios do not interfere with any others. No radio belongs to both pairs. Each successful test places all radios in a row without either interfering pair side by side. These tests were all successful:

    Test 1: Echo, Iris, Falcon, Comet, Juno, Beacon.
    Test 2: Comet, Iris, Juno, Echo, Falcon, Beacon.
    Test 3: Comet, Falcon, Echo, Iris, Beacon, Juno.

    Which pair of radios must interfere with each other?

    1. AEcho and Iris
    2. BIris and Juno
    3. CComet and Echo
    4. DFalcon and Juno
  2. Q2

    A council asks visitors at its dog exercise enclosure which improvement the town most needs. Most choose a larger dog enclosure.

    Ari: "That is clearly the improvement most residents want."

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

    1. ASome residents may prefer a different name for the dog enclosure.
    2. BExpanding the dog enclosure may cost more than repainting its fence.
    3. CThe enclosure may be busier on weekends than on weekdays.
    4. DVisitors to the dog enclosure may favour that improvement more than other residents do.
  3. Q3

    The string below contains only four symbols: $, &, @ and #.

    @##&$$&&&##$@$$$###

    Which one of these four symbols can be added to the right-hand side of the string so that no three-symbol pattern is repeated anywhere in the string?

    1. A#
    2. B&
    3. C$
    4. D@
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