Year 6 · Thinking Skills
Tidy SparrowNo. 07
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
There are 4 numbered messages on a puzzle trail notice. Each message is either true or false. Any count refers to all 4 messages, including the message making the claim.
Message 1: "Exactly 0 of these messages are false."
Message 2: "Messages 1 and 4 are both true or both false."
Message 3: "Messages 2 and 1 are one true and one false."
Message 4: "Exactly 4 of these messages are true."Which list contains all the true messages?
- Q2
A rescue robot transmits status messages by flashing 3 coloured lights in order. The four possible messages are:
Message Colours (in order)
Route clear yellow, red, white
Battery low white, green, red
Path blocked blue, red, yellow
Package found green, yellow, redPriya remembers only two of the three colours from one flashed message, without remembering the order. One of those colours is red, and she can nonetheless deduce which message was flashed.
What was the message?
- Q3
A technician tests 5 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: Iris, Beacon, Glider, Echo, Falcon.
Test 2: Glider, Iris, Falcon, Echo, Beacon.
Test 3: Echo, Falcon, Iris, Beacon, Glider.Which pair of radios must interfere with each other?