Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1

Sep 30, 2026

Upload by nayy☆

Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 presents multiple-choice reasoning practice focused on strengthening critical thinking through structured test questions. The content includes short logical scenarios and statements requiring identification of what must be true, what best supports an argument, and how to evaluate conclusions using given information. Practice tests cover survey logic, argument strengthening, car-signal reasoning, commuter statistics interpretation, chart selection, and conditional “stitch in time” style problems, followed by answer sheets and solutions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages8

Reading Time20 min

AccessFree to download

Thinking Skills Practice Test 1

Thinking Skills Practice Test 2

Thinking Skills Practice Test 3

Thinking Skills Practice Test 4

Thinking Skills Practice Test 5

Thinking Skills Practice Test Answer Sheet

Thinking Skills Practice Test Answers & Solutions

THINKING SKILLS 5 Thinking Skills Test Papers RAY LEE | JIMMY LIU To Cookie, my light, and to Phoebe who I hope can one day figure out all the questions in this book. Five Senses Education Pty Ltd 2/195 Prospect Highway Seven Hills 2147 New South Wales Australia Copyright © Ray Lee and Jimmy Liu © Five Senses Education Pty Ltd 2023 First Published 2023 All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Lee, Ray and Liu, Jimmy Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 ISBN 978-1-76032-543-5 2023 01 09 Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 Contents Thinking Skills Practice Test 1……………………………………………………… 3 Thinking Skills Practice Test 2 …………………………………………………… 20 Thinking Skills Practice Test 3 …………………………………………………… 37 Thinking Skills Practice Test 4 …………………………………………………… 54 Thinking Skills Practice Test 5 …………………………………………………… 72 Thinking Skills Practice Test Answer Sheet …………….………………… 89 Thinking Skills Practice Test Answers & Solutions ……………….…… 99 Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 1 In a survey of 1000 people, everyone that likes chicken likes pizza. Everyone that liked pizza liked ice cream but no one who liked pizza liked burgers. Hillary, Maggie, Hazel and Johnathan all took part in the survey. Based on the above information, which one of the following must be true? A If Johnathan likes ice cream , he also likes burgers B If Hazel does not like chicken, she does not like ice cream C If Maggie does not like ice cream , she does not like burgers D If Hillary likes chicken, she does not like burgers 2 It is important for children to be outside and stay active with their friends. While this means that they may occasionally get hurt, it allows them to experience the world and be young and free. Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the above argument? A When children are inside they usually get addicted to technology B Children need more time to relax and play video games C Some children need to spend more time with their family D Some children need to spend too much time outside with their friends 3 Whenever the caution signal on Belinda’s car begins to flash, it means the engine is starting to die out. Tara: “If the signal is not flashing anymore, the engine must not be dying anymore” Ridd: “No, that means the car engine is already dead” If the information in the box is true, whose reasoning is correct? A Tara only B Ridd only C Both Tara and Ridd D Neither Tara nor Ridd 4 © Ray Lee and Jimmy Liu © Five Senses Education Pty Ltd 2023 Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 Questions 4 and 5 refer to the following information. The percentage of commuters who took public transport to work over one week is shown below. | Day | Percentage of commuters taking public transport | | --- | --- | | Monday | 60% | | Tuesday | 62% | | Wednesday | ? | | Thursday | 56% | | Friday | 70% | 4 If the average percentage attendance for the week was 65%, what percentage of commuters took public transport on Wednesday? A 69% B 80% C 77% D 65% 5 Which of the following column charts represents the information in the table? | ϭϬϬ ~~ ~~ | | | --- | --- | | ϴϬ
ϲϬ
ϰϬ
ϮϬ
Ϭ | | | D d t d, & | | A | ϭϬϬ
ϴϬ
ϲϬ
ϰϬ
ϮϬ
Ϭ | | | --- | --- | | D d t d, & | | C | ϭϬϬ
ϴϬ
ϲϬ
ϰϬ
ϮϬ
Ϭ | | | --- | --- | | D d t d, & | | B | ϭϬϬ ~~ ~~ | | | --- | --- | | ϴϬ
ϲϬ
ϰϬ
ϮϬ
Ϭ | | | D d t d, & | | D © Ray Lee and Jimmy Liu © Five Senses Education Pty Ltd 2023 5 Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 6 When Jess told Thomas she wanted to give up dance to focus on

FAQs

What skills do the practice tests in Essential Selective Thinking Skills Book 1 focus on?

They focus on selective thinking and logical reasoning skills through short scenario-based multiple-choice questions.

How does the book structure the Thinking Skills practice section?

It provides five numbered practice tests, followed by an answer sheet and a separate section for answers and solutions.

What types of reasoning questions appear in the practice tests?

The tests include conditional “must be true” questions, argument strengthening questions, and questions that require interpreting information such as surveys and commuter percentage tables or charts.

Sep 30, 2026

Upload by nayy☆