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Practice Paper 06

40questions40minutesmultiple choice

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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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Preview

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 County Trophy finals, teams must meet at least one of three conditions, any combination allowed.

    Lucy: "There were 6 qualifying groups so 12 teams came first or second. 14 teams scored at least 15 match points, and 1 team won the Fair Play Award. So I should plan for 27 teams in the finals."

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

    1. ASome teams may have met more than one of the conditions, so there will be more than 27 teams.
    2. BSome teams may have scored a lot more than 15 match points.
    3. CSome teams may have met more than one of the conditions, so there will be fewer than 27 teams.
    4. DThe winner of the Fair Play Award may have scored fewer than 15 match points.
  2. Q2

    A 3D puzzle piece is built from 4 unit cubes, all sitting flat on the ground with no cubes stacked on top of one another. The four cubes form a 2 × 2 block: two cubes side-by-side, with another two cubes directly in front of them.

    Which one of the following correctly describes the view of the piece from directly above?

    1. AA zig-zag (S-shape): two cubes in a row, then two more cubes offset by one position to form a step.
    2. BA 2×2 square of four cubes.
    3. CA straight row of four cubes.
    4. DA T-shape: three cubes in a row, with a fourth cube attached at right angles to the middle cube.
  3. Q3

    The school banner competition has a rule: a banner wins if and only if it is both hand-painted AND larger than 2 metres across.

    Lachlan: "Our banner didn't win, so either it wasn't hand-painted or it wasn't larger than 2 metres."

    Priya: "Our banner wasn't hand-painted — I can tell you right now it won't win."

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

    1. ALachlan only
    2. BBoth Lachlan and Priya
    3. CNeither Lachlan nor Priya
    4. DPriya only
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