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№ 10007 · Year 6 · Thinking Skills

Practice Paper 10007

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.

— 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. Three attempts at each paper, 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.

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

    4 friends are standing together:

    Aaron says: "Exactly 4 of us are saying something false."
    Finn says: "Exactly 2 of us are saying something false."
    Bridget says: "Exactly 0 of us are saying something false."
    Eliza says: "Exactly 3 of us are saying something false."

    Which one of the friends must be telling the truth?

    1. ABridget
    2. BAaron
    3. CFinn
    4. DEliza
  2. Q2

    A lighthouse transmits messages by flashing 3 coloured lights in order. The four possible messages are:

    Message Colours (in order)
    Safe to dock yellow, red, white
    Storm incoming white, green, red
    Do not dock blue, red, yellow
    Another ship nearby green, yellow, red

    Ellen 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?

    1. AAnother ship nearby
    2. BSafe to dock
    3. CStorm incoming
    4. DDo not dock
  3. Q3

    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, Jannali, Alinta, Kirra.
    Photo 2 order: Kirra, Shakira, Jannali, Medika, Alinta.

    Which pair of players on the team must be sisters?

    1. AJannali and Kirra
    2. BKirra and Medika
    3. CAlinta and Shakira
    4. DAlinta and Kirra
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