OC Thinking Skills: OC-style practice (account needed)

Thinking Skills mixes short arguments, logic from clues, spatial puzzles and number puzzles. BrightHop has a practice test and topic lessons for it, behind a free account.

BrightHop is not affiliated with or endorsed by ACARA, the NSW Department of Education or any test authority. It is practice and learning support, not a guarantee of any result, placement or score.

What the official test covers

The Opportunity Class Placement Test for Year 5 entry in 2028 has three sections: Reading (40 minutes), Mathematical Reasoning (40 minutes) and Thinking Skills (30 minutes). There is no Writing section.

Checked on 2026-10-31. Always confirm details with the official pages, as they can change.

What BrightHop can help with now

Practice in the style of the test

BrightHop’s own practice papers and topics. Not official tests.

OC-style Thinking Skills practice test (Years 3–4)
30 questions in 30 minutes, five choices each: arguments (4), claims and texts (3), logic and clues (8), shapes and space (8), number and word puzzles (7).
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Twelve Thinking Skills topics with animated lessons
Including folding and cutting, nets and floor plans, dominoes and card flips, and assumptions in arguments.
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What is not available yet

No free public Thinking Skills check yet, so there is no start button on this page.
Ordinary Maths and English Skill Checks do not test this kind of reasoning.

How the check works and what happens after

A Skill Check is free and needs no account. Each question is marked as your child answers, and the result shows the skills that may need attention. It is an informal check, not a diagnosis or proof of mastery. When an answer is wrong, a short lesson with a worked example explains the idea, a follow-up question checks it, and a retest later shows whether it helped. Keeping progress needs a free account.

For OC-style reasoning topics, BrightHop uses the same loop: find where the reasoning went wrong, explain the strategy with an animated worked example, practise it, then retest.

Sources

NSW Department of Education: Placement test (read 2026-10-31)