Year 6 · Thinking Skills
Wise FinchNo. 08
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
A craft room stores jars on shelves. There are 11 shelves, numbered 1 to 11. Each can hold at most 14 jars. All 120 jars must be distributed among these shelves; each item goes in exactly one container, and containers may be empty.
What is the smallest possible number of shelves that hold at least 11 jars each?
- Q2
An after-hours return chute at a toy library has no camera or counter. Staff have not watched it after closing.
Pia: "No member of staff has seen anyone use the chute after closing, so it is never used then."
Which one of these sentences shows the mistake that has been made?
- Q3
An outdoor event lends radios to volunteers. Every loan starts at its booked time and lasts at most 4 hours. Equipment may be returned early, but it must be returned by the end of the loan. The depot has enough radios to fill all these bookings.
Loan start Number of radios lent 10:00 a.m. 50 11:00 a.m. 53 12:00 p.m. 35 1:00 p.m. 26 2:00 p.m. 61 3:00 p.m. 16 4:00 p.m. 52 What is the greatest number of these radios that could still be out on loan at 1:30 p.m.?