Year 6 · Thinking Skills
Gentle HeronNo. 03
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.
- Q1
The hiking app awards a gold star to a route if and only if it is both under 10 km AND has more than 200 metres of elevation gain.
Willow: "If a route gets a gold star, you know it must be under 10 km."
Arjun: "And if a route is 15 km long, you know it won't get a gold star."
If the information above is true, whose reasoning is correct?
- Q2
Five people — Dr Grey, Miss Orange, Mr Green, Mrs Black, Ms White — live in a row of five houses. Each likes a different sport (tennis, football, swimming, badminton, golf) and travels by a different means (ferry, minibus, monorail, tuktuk, cable car).
• Ms White travels by monorail.
• Dr Grey travels by ferry.
• Mrs Black travels by minibus.
• Dr Grey lives in the second house from the right, and their sport is football.
• Miss Orange lives at the right end of the row, and their sport is swimming.
• Mr Green lives in the middle house and travels by cable car.
• Ms White lives in the second house from the left, and their sport is golf.Who lives in the first house on the left?
- Q3
A model-boat contest adds each team's points from three challenges. Two challenges are complete:
Team Cargo test Steering test Fern 48 66 Brook 51 44 Kestrel 91 66 Juniper 48 57 Acorn 96 67 Cedar 57 33 Grove 38 62 Linden 65 65 The final distance challenge awards a whole number of points from 0 to 40. The trophy is awarded only to a team whose combined score is strictly higher than every other team's; a tie for first place means no trophy is awarded.
The team currently in the lead wants to be certain of winning, whatever the other teams score. What is the fewest points it needs in the final challenge?