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Elimination & Time Strategy

Quiz · Thinking Skills · Y4 OC · Year 4 OC
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Work through the levels in order. Type your answer and press Check — open the worked solution if you get stuck. Answers like -6, 3/4 or 0.25 are typed exactly as shown. A ⭐ Bonus Challenge at the end is extra credit — skip it if the rest was hard work.

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Level 1 · Warm-up

1 In the OC Thinking Skills test, how many questions and how many minutes? (write questions/minutes) (type)
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30 questions in 30 minutes — one minute each on average.
2 Is there a penalty for a wrong answer?
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No — which is why every question must get an answer.
3 You guess blindly from 4 options. Chance of the mark as a fraction? (as a fraction) (type)
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1/4 — and every eliminated option raises it.

Level 2 · Core

4 You kill one option, then guess from the rest. Chance now? (as a fraction) (type)
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1/3 — one kill took you from 25% to 33%.
5 At the minute-10 checkpoint you should be near which question number? (number)
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Question 10 — checkpoints keep the one-minute budget honest.
6 Complete the stall-breaker: eliminate → bank a guess → ____ → move on. (one word)
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Flag — so you can return with fresh eyes if time remains.

Level 3 · Challenge

7 True or false: you should flag a hard question and leave it BLANK so you remember to come back.
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False — bank a guess first. A flagged blank you never revisit scores zero; a flagged guess keeps its chance.
8 Which precision word means "assume this option is correct while judging it": only, if true, or best? (type)
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If true — you never question the option itself, only whether it helps.
9 You are 4 minutes behind at the Q20 checkpoint with 10 questions left. Roughly how many seconds per question remain? (number)
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6 minutes = 360 seconds for 10 questions → 36 seconds each. Time to lean hard on elimination and fast wins.