Years 3 and 4
OC Test Preparation
Elite prepares students for the Mathematical Reasoning and Thinking Skills sections of the OC test, each a third of the score and sat on computer.
Who it is for
Students in Year 3 and Year 4 working towards the Opportunity Class Placement Test.
Section by section
The OC sections Elite teaches
Mathematical Reasoning and Thinking Skills in the OC test, 70 minutes between them. Select a section.
Mathematical Reasoning
- Questions
- 35
- Minutes
- 40
- Each
- 69 s
- Of the mark
- 33.3%
What it covers
Problems drawn from the NSW maths curriculum up to Year 4
Thinking Skills
- Questions
- 30
- Minutes
- 30
- Each
- 60 s
- Of the mark
- 33.3%
What it covers
Critical thinking and problem solving, in a range of question types. No previous knowledge is needed
From the NSW Department of Education, November 2026. The test is sat on computer, with no calculators or rulers.
What Elite teaches
Across both sections
What every OC class at Elite works on.
Start with the entry assessment-
Mathematical Reasoning and Thinking Skills taught with equal weight, because each is worth a third of the mark
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Thinking skills from first principles, starting in Year 3
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Familiarity through mock tests, so the real paper is not the first timed paper
Try the paper
A question for each section
Questions from Elite's own papers, against the clock at the real test's pace. All twelve sample questions.
- Choose an answer. The clock starts.
- Check it against the key.
- Read the worked solution and the skill it tests.
Mathematical Reasoning
Worked solution
For a fixed total the product is largest when the two numbers are equal, so 11 times 11 gives 121. The distractor 484 is 22 times 22, which multiplies the total by itself instead of splitting it in two. 120 is 10 times 12: close, but numbers that differ give a smaller product than equal ones.
This tests Number properties, part of Mathematical Reasoning. The answer is C.
Show the worked solution
For a fixed total the product is largest when the two numbers are equal, so 11 times 11 gives 121. The distractor 484 is 22 times 22, which multiplies the total by itself instead of splitting it in two. 120 is 10 times 12: close, but numbers that differ give a smaller product than equal ones.
This tests Number properties. The answer is C.
From Elite's own Week 1 Mathematical Reasoning paper, with a fifth option added because the real test gives five. The clock runs at the real test's pace: 35 questions in 40 minutes is about 69 seconds a question.
Thinking Skills
Worked solution
- Understand the question. Conditional Statement. Two sufficient conditions that lead to the same place.
- Use the strategy. Write both rules. Rule 1: no hat, so veranda. Rule 2: detention, so veranda. Each has a contrapositive: not under the veranda, so had a hat; not under the veranda, so no detention. Now notice that two different things send a student to the veranda. So seeing someone there tells you one of the two happened, not which. And knowing one reason is missing does not clear the other reason.
- Apply the strategy. Look at Mo. Ari was under the veranda, so he forgot his hat. That is "B, so A" on Rule 1, the converse. Ari might have been on detention with his hat on. Mo is wrong. Now Lia. Bella had her hat, so she was not under the veranda. That is "not A, so not B" on Rule 1, the inverse. Rule 1 only covers hatless students. Rule 2 could still put Bella there if she was on detention. Lia is wrong.
- Confirm the answer. D. When two rules lead to the same place, the converse of one rule ignores the other rule, and so does the inverse.
This tests Logic reasoning: conditional statements, part of Thinking Skills. The answer is D.
Show the worked solution
- Understand the question. Conditional Statement. Two sufficient conditions that lead to the same place.
- Use the strategy. Write both rules. Rule 1: no hat, so veranda. Rule 2: detention, so veranda. Each has a contrapositive: not under the veranda, so had a hat; not under the veranda, so no detention. Now notice that two different things send a student to the veranda. So seeing someone there tells you one of the two happened, not which. And knowing one reason is missing does not clear the other reason.
- Apply the strategy. Look at Mo. Ari was under the veranda, so he forgot his hat. That is "B, so A" on Rule 1, the converse. Ari might have been on detention with his hat on. Mo is wrong. Now Lia. Bella had her hat, so she was not under the veranda. That is "not A, so not B" on Rule 1, the inverse. Rule 1 only covers hatless students. Rule 2 could still put Bella there if she was on detention. Lia is wrong.
- Confirm the answer. D. When two rules lead to the same place, the converse of one rule ignores the other rule, and so does the inverse.
This tests Logic reasoning: conditional statements. The answer is D.
Chosen by Rex for the website, 9 November 2026, with his own answer and four-step explanation. The clock runs at the real test's pace: 40 questions in 40 minutes is about 60 seconds a question.
Where every child starts
Book the free entry assessment
A Thinking Skills paper of 60 questions and a Maths paper of 70, sat online. Elite then places your child in a class of 8 to 12 at their level.
After every class, targeted homework on the learned topic is assigned to help kids master the knowledge solidly, and the teachers will send the wrong answers from the homework to parents via email, making it easy for kids to review and truly understand their mistakes.