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Is your child preparing for the Selective High School Placement Test (Selective School Test)? See if they can solve the 15 Selective School Test practice questions below!
These 15 Selective School Test practice questions are assessable in the NSW Selective High School Placement Test. You can find key dates for the Selective School Test here. If you want to learn more about the Selective School Test and how to prepare for it, read our article here.
In this section, students will be presented with a passage. Passages are based on different genres such as non-fiction, fiction, poetry, magazine articles and reports.
The student will then be presented with a series of questions that will test their comprehension, vocabulary and knowledge of the meaning of words, and critical thinking skills.
In this section, students will encounter a series of questions that test their Maths ability.
These questions will involve word problems, images and diagrams. These will challenge the student to apply their Maths skills outside of what they may encounter in a classroom.
Some of these questions challenge students to think critically about shapes and objects. Students may be asked to think about patterns and the appearance of 3D objects or 2D objects. Other questions include logic puzzles and logical arguments.
These are challenging questions that students may not have encountered before.
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn’t have had any hand in the mischief.
The way Dinah washed her children’s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr—no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted* Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
‘Oh, you wicked little thing!’ cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. ‘Really, Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You ought, Dinah, you know you ought!’ she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage—and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up the ball again. But she didn’t get on very fast, as she was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself. Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.
‘Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty?’ Alice began. ‘You’d have guessed if you’d been up in the window with me—only Dinah was making you tidy, so you couldn’t. I was watching the boys getting in sticks for the bonfire—and it wants plenty of sticks, Kitty! Only it got so cold, and it snowed so, they had to leave off. Never mind, Kitty, we’ll go and see the bonfire to-morrow.’ Here Alice wound two or three turns of the worsted round the kitten’s neck, just to see how it would look: this led to a scramble, in which the ball rolled down upon the floor, and yards and yards of it got unwound again.
‘Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,’ Alice went on as soon as they were comfortably settled again, ‘when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you’d have deserved it, you little mischievous darling! What have you got to say for yourself? Now don’t interrupt me!’ she went on, holding up one finger. ‘I’m going to tell you all your faults. Number one: you squeaked twice while Dinah was washing your face this morning. Now you can’t deny it, Kitty: I heard you! What’s that you say?’ (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) ‘Her paw went into your eye? Well, that’s your fault, for keeping your eyes open—if you’d shut them tight up, it wouldn’t have happened. Now don’t make any more excuses, but listen! Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her! What, you were thirsty, were you? How do you know she wasn’t thirsty too? Now for number three: you unwound every bit of the worsted* while I wasn’t looking!’
*Worsted – a smooth compact yarn from long wool fibers used especially for carpeting or knitting
Q1. What is the most likely emotion Alice feels throughout this extract?
Q2. Why did Kitty squeak while getting its face washed by Dinah?
Q3. The word ‘reproachfully’ tells us:
Q4. Which of the following is a reason why Alice was annoyed at Kitty?
Q5. The word ‘mischief’ means:
Q1. What is the sum of the number of faces, the number of edges and the number of vertices of a pyramid with a pentagonal base?
Q2. Jessica lives in Beijing and she visits her friend, Eric, who lives in Sydney.
Jessica leaves on Monday at 7am local time on a 3-hour flight to Shanghai.
She spends 47 hours in Shanghai.
She then catches a 11-hour flight to Sydney.
The time in Beijing is 3 hours behind the time in Sydney.
What time is it in Sydney when Jessica arrives?
Q3. What is the value of the missing number ▲ in this number pattern?
2, 5, 14, ▲, 122, 365
Q4. The timetable for trains between the suburbs of Hornsby and Hurstville is shown below.
Christine catches the second train of the day from Hornsby to Hurstville.
She goes shopping for 1hr and returns to Hornsby on the next train.
How long does she spend away from Hornsby?
Q5. Angela has a mixed deck of cards which consists of spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds.
There are twice as many spades as diamonds.
There are half as many clubs as diamonds.
The probability that it is a heart is 0.3.
If she takes one card out without looking, what is the probability that she will get a red card?
NOTE: HEARTS AND DIAMONDS ARE RED CARDS.
Q1. Nina has written a complaint to the school. She has suggested that, for the children’s wellbeing, lunch time should be increased to give students more opportunities to socialise with each other. Which one of these statements, if true, most weakens Nina’s argument?
Q2. Ms Lin has a large room which can be hired for group study.
She has a time limit of 5 hours and the room can accommodate a maximum of 12 people. Her charges are detailed in the following table:
What is the cost per person for a study session of 4 hours and 30 minutes for a group of 8?
Q3. If Jeff does not sleep well, then he’s likely to be tired.
If he is tired, then he will not study for his exam.
If he studies for his exam, he might pass his exam.
If he doesn’t study, he won’t pass.
If the above statements are correct, which one of the following is not possible?
Q4.
Anthony: “Janice is fit. She trains everyday without taking a rest, and never gets injured. She’s sure to become a successful athlete.”
Janice: “Anthony often takes rest days to recover, but he struggles to maintain intensity, causing him to be nonchalant during training. Being an athlete is probably not for him.”
If the information in the box is true, whose reasoning is correct?
Q5.
Ellie: “Well, I know that three people scored 90% on all 3 tests. So that means that six people will get prizes.”
Which one of the following sentences shows the mistake Ellie has made?
| Verbal Reasoning | Mathematical Reasoning | Thinking Skills |
| Question 1. D | Question 1. D | Question 1. D |
| Question 2. B | Question 2. C | Question 2. C |
| Question 3. A | Question 3. B | Question 3. C |
| Question 4. D | Question 4. E | Question 4. B |
| Question 5. B | Question 5. C | Question 5. A |
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