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Year 6 · Thinking Skills

Quiet CockatooNo. 09

40questions40minutesmultiple choice

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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  • ReviewAfter each attempt, the review screen shows the correct answer and an explanation for every question.
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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

    A wildlife survey lends cameras to its teams. Every loan starts at its booked time and lasts at most 3 hours. Equipment may be returned early, but it must be returned by the end of the loan. The depot has enough cameras to fill all these bookings.

    Loan startNumber of cameras lent
    10:00 a.m.63
    11:00 a.m.24
    12:00 p.m.36
    1:00 p.m.22
    2:00 p.m.19
    3:00 p.m.30
    4:00 p.m.47

    What is the greatest number of these cameras that could still be out on loan at 3:30 p.m.?

    1. A107
    2. B118
    3. C241
    4. D71
  2. Q2

    A computer game chooses a red or blue light independently on each turn, with equal chances. The last four lights were red.

    Hugo: "The next light is more likely to be blue, because the game has to catch up."

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

    1. AThe next four lights must include at least one blue because an all-red run would be too unlikely.
    2. BThe earlier lights do not change the equal chances on the next turn.
    3. CA run of red lights makes another red more likely because the same colour has become established.
    4. DAn equal chance of each colour means every block of six turns must contain three of each.
  3. Q3

    A school canteen sells biscuits for $3 each and pies for $6 each. A customer buys 8 items altogether and pays $33.

    How many biscuits did they buy?

    1. A4
    2. B6
    3. C3
    4. D5
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