Year 4 OC Thinking Skills

Pick the statement that, if true, best supports a claim. Telling relevant evidence apart from true-but-irrelevant facts.

A boxed rule + two speakers each draw a conclusion; decide who reasoned correctly. Only-if traps, reversing rules, denying the antecedent.

Identify the sentence that shows the flaw in someone’s reasoning: "must be" from "could be", minimum ≠ guarantee, more than one match.

Deductions that follow necessarily from if-then rules and conditions — versus what only might be true.

Left/right ordering from clues; multi-clue elimination puzzles (which chest holds the key). Draw the line, place the fixed facts first.

Round-table and facing arrangements; compass-direction town maps. Diagonally opposite, next to, north-east of.

Who-owns-what overlap questions and choose-one-from-each-list constraint puzzles.

Which single extra fact would settle the outcome? Testing each option against all remaining possibilities.

Twice/four-times-as-fast reasoning without formulas: same distance means the faster one takes the fraction of the time.

Counting performances, days and occurrences across a date range — inclusive counting and the fence-post trap.

Undo a chain of steps from the final state (folded string, halving-doubling puzzles). Reverse each step in reverse order.

Reading two tables together (biggest improvement) and recipe scaling where one ingredient runs out first.

Which net folds into a normal dice? Opposite faces sum to 7; finding opposite pairs on a net without folding.

Which square is made of the same five pieces (turned or flipped)? Matching pieces by size and shape, not position.

Placing tiles under adjacency rules (no matching numbers touching); checking which combination cannot work.

Matching a floor plan to a 3-D view; top views, side views and what disappears from each.

30 questions in 30 minutes, no penalty: answer everything, eliminate wrong options fast, flag and return, never stall.

A timed mixed set in the official format — every question type from Chapters 1–4 at test pace.

Full-length 30-question, 30-minute sample test in the official format and difficulty mix.

Full-length 30-question, 30-minute sample test in the official format and difficulty mix.

Full-length 30-question, 30-minute sample test in the official format and difficulty mix.