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№ 10002 · Year 6 · Thinking Skills

Practice Paper 10002

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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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

    To qualify for the annual canoe race: finish first or second in a regional heat, OR last year's winning team (exact same members) qualifies automatically, OR one team is chosen at random as a 'wild card' from teams that failed to qualify otherwise.

    Glen: "We came third in our regional heat. We won last year, but one teammate has left. Our only chance now is to get her back."

    Hayden: "If we can get her back, it won't matter that we didn't do well enough in our regional heat."

    If the information in the box is true, whose reasoning is correct?

    1. AHayden only
    2. BGlen only
    3. CNeither Glen nor Hayden
    4. DBoth Glen and Hayden
  2. Q2

    Carlos, Gemma, Layla, Sharon were all born in the same year but in different months.

    • Carlos is older than Sharon.
    • Carlos is younger than Layla.
    • Sharon is older than Gemma.

    Given this, which one of the following cannot be true?

    1. ASharon is younger than Layla
    2. BLayla is older than Sharon
    3. CGemma was born in the same year but before Carlos
    4. DCarlos is older than Gemma
  3. Q3

    Ms Walker split her class by birthday: students born January–June got milk with lunch, July–December got juice. After a month's times-table test, milk-drinkers scored 5 marks higher on average.

    Ms Walker: "Drinking milk with lunch improves children's times-tables!"

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

    1. AMore students may have been born between January and June than between July and December.
    2. BSome of the students might drink a lot of milk or juice at home.
    3. CThe students who drank milk may have been better at times tables before the experiment started.
    4. DThe students who drank juice might do better in other kinds of activities.
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