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A free OC-style thinking skills check

Free, with no sign-up. About ten minutes.

Ten thinking skills questions in the style of the OC test, for Years 3 and 4, from Learnest's own question bank. Your child picks an answer for each. Then you see the marks, the usual slip behind each wrong answer and the skills to look at.

Learnest marks the answers and keeps none of them. There is nothing to sign up for, and no email needed. The real section gives about a minute for each question, so allow about ten minutes if your child wants to practise the pace.

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  1. Question 1: Thinking skills

    Yusuf joins fawn to deer, so foal joins which one?

  2. Question 2: Thinking skills

    Sam has a code. You slide every letter forward three places. Put STAR into code.

  3. Question 3: Thinking skills

    At the cricket ground the over totals go 19, 25, 31, 37, 43. What number comes next?

  4. Question 4: Thinking skills

    A scarf is knitted in the repeating pattern amber, amber, navy, navy, navy. Over 50 rows, how many are amber?

  5. Question 5: Thinking skills

    A giant foam block, a cube with 5 units on every edge, is sprayed silver outside and sawn into units. How many pieces end up silver on two or more of their faces?

  6. Question 6: Thinking skills
    4 rows of 6

    A jeweller lays beads out in the tray shown. How many beads are in the tray?

  7. Question 7: Thinking skills

    Four children wait at the museum door. Zara stands before Noah. Mei comes before Ivy. Ivy is ahead of Zara. Who is third from the front?

  8. Question 8: Thinking skills

    A pot is packed with buttons. Sam thinks the number is between 4 and 11. Raj thinks the number is at most 10. Lana thinks the number is between 12 and 16. Just one child has made a mistake. Which child guessed wrongly?

  9. Question 9: Thinking skills

    If the sail lifts, then the boat tilts. If the boat tilts, then the spray flies. The sail lifts. What follows?

  10. Question 10: Thinking skills

    A draughts league of 9 members has everyone play each other member once. How many matches are played?

Leave a question blank if your child does not know. It shows as not answered.

Learnest is not affiliated with ACARA, NESA, the NSW Department of Education or the Australian Maths Trust. Every question in this check is Learnest's own, written for practice. None comes from a past paper.