Year 4 · Selective School and Opportunity Class
Year 4 Reading reasoning practice for selective school tests
Reading in a selective test is comprehension with the easy questions taken out. Passages are short, and every option is defensible until you look closely at the wording of the question.
What the section covers
- Finding information
- Locating a detail that is stated directly, sometimes in a table or a caption rather than the paragraphs.
- Working things out
- Answers the text implies but never says — why a character acted, what happened between two paragraphs.
- Purpose and audience
- Deciding why a text was written and who it was written for.
- Comparing texts
- Holding two texts side by side and noticing where they agree, differ or contradict.
Sample questions
8 real questions from our Year 4 papers, covering the different ways this section asks things. Answer the ones you can click; the rest show how they work. Nothing to sign up for.
Question 1
The Night Before Camp
Reading passage
100%How many characters appear in this text other than Maya and Gran?
Question 2
The Night Before Camp
Reading passage
100%Maya cuts off the blue ribbon because
Question 3
The Night Before Camp
Reading passage
100%Is Gran too strict?
Question 4
The Night Before Camp
Reading passage
100%Capital letters are used when Gran says “I WILL …”
Question 5
Reading passage
100%Maya’s behaviour can best be summed up as
Question 6
The Night Before Camp
Reading passage
100%Gran slipped the blue ribbon into the tin because she
Question 7
The Bumbalooribee
Reading passage
100%In stanza one the word funny means this creature
Question 8
The Bumbalooribee
Reading passage
100%The creature’s behaviour is typical of
Keep going with the full papers
Five Year 4 reading reasoning papers, 123 questions.
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