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№ 10001 · Year 6 · Thinking Skills

Practice Paper 10001

40questions40minutesmultiple choice

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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.

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  1. Q1

    A girls' 5-a-side soccer team includes two pairs of sisters. Whenever they pose for a photograph they make sure no girl stands next to her sister.

    Photo 1 order: Medika, Shakira, Kirra, Alinta, Killara.
    Photo 2 order: Kirra, Medika, Killara, Alinta, Shakira.

    Which pair of players on the team must be sisters?

    1. AKillara and Medika
    2. BKillara and Kirra
    3. CKillara and Shakira
    4. DAlinta and Medika
  2. Q2

    Over a year, Ahmed and Melissa recorded every frog sighting at Quilpie Nature Reserve: 113 red sentinels and 15 speckled greenbacks.

    Melissa: "That tells us red sentinels are much more common here, and speckled greenbacks are rare."

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

    1. AJust because red sentinels are more common here does not mean they are common elsewhere.
    2. BThere may be other species of frog on the reserve not yet discovered.
    3. CSeasonal weather changes may affect the two species differently.
    4. DRed sentinels may be easier to spot than speckled greenbacks.
  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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