Year 8 · Selective School and Opportunity Class
Year 8 Thinking skills practice for selective school tests
Year 8 thinking skills questions are close to first-year university logic problems, written for thirteen-year-olds. They reward patience: reading every option before committing to one.
What the section covers
- Formal deduction
- Conclusions that follow necessarily, and those that only follow sometimes.
- Argument analysis
- Separating a claim from the reasons offered for it, and testing whether they connect.
- Constraint puzzles
- Several conditions applied at once to reach a single arrangement.
- Assumptions
- The step the writer took for granted, which is where most arguments fail.
Sample questions
8 real questions from our Year 8 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
Find the odd one out
Question 2
Line is to square as arc is to ____?
Question 3
Which of the following is most similar in meaning to important?
Question 4
Which of the following is most similar in meaning to ply?
Question 5
Choose the word most similar to succinct
Question 6
Which of the following is most similar in meaning to lucid?
Question 7
Which of the following is most similar in meaning to resolute?
Question 8
If Owl is to hoot, then Dove is to ____?
Keep going with the full papers
Nine Year 8 thinking skills papers, 450 questions.
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