Year 6 · Selective School and Opportunity Class
Year 6 Reading reasoning practice for selective school tests
Year 6 reading reasoning rewards precision. The difference between the right answer and the plausible one is often a single qualifying word in 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
- Recognising persuasion, bias and tone, and how a writer's choices shape the reader.
- Comparing texts
- Holding two texts side by side and noticing where they agree, differ or contradict.
Sample questions
8 real questions from our Year 6 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
What is the estimated water volume of Dragon’s Breath Cave Lake?
Question 2
How many 2-litre bottles would be needed to hold the lake’s water?
Question 3
In which year was Dragon’s Breath Cave discovered?
Question 4
What does the name 'Dragon’s Breath' refer to?
Question 5
What is the average temperature inside the cavern compared to the surrounding desert?
Question 6
How wide are the narrowest tunnels leading to the lake?
Question 7
How far did one diver report travelling before turning back?
Question 8
Why are scientists particularly interested in the lake?
Keep going with the full papers
Nine Year 6 papers, 274 questions.
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