Free NSW Selective practice test, on a screen like the real one.
One full NSW Selective practice test. Three papers on a screen, on a clock, marked the moment your child finishes.
No account and no email. Best on a laptop or tablet, where the reading text sits beside the questions.
Already a Bing’s Academy student? Start it from your own page link instead, so all your work stays in one place.
Try one question now.
One from Thinking Skills, marked the same way the test marks it. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent.
A Bing’s Academy practice question, written in the style and difficulty of the real paper.
Thinking Skills · one question
Both scales below are balanced.
How many triangles would balance four circles?
What comes back.
Marked the moment they hand in. Not a week later, and not by email.
Each paper on its own
Three scores tell you which paper to spend the next month on.
The skill behind the mistake
“Conditional reasoning, 6 of 9 missed” is something you can actually work on.
Every question, green or red
The right answer under each one, while the mistake is still fresh.
They can sit it again whenever they like. The answer choices shuffle, so a second go tests whether they can work it out, not whether they remember.
otherwise they are just memorising
Isn’t a past paper enough?
Four things a past paper cannot do.
The exam is sat on a screen, so the format is part of what they are practising.
A clock that does not stop
Counting down in the same corner of the same screen as the real test.
Reading beside the questions
Scrolling a text while answering is its own skill, and a printed page does not teach it.
Flagging, skipping, coming back
It works the way it works on the day.
A score nobody at home had to give
The mark arrives without a parent having to judge it.
John 'Bing' Huang
Founder · Penrith Selective, then Girraween
Why this is free.
When I sat these exams there was nothing to practise on. Every child I have taught since has asked me the same question on the way in: what is it actually like.
A parent should be able to find out where their child stands without paying anyone first. If your child wants help with what the results show, you know where we are. That is the whole of the catch.
What we can and cannot say.
students we taught who sat the Selective test in 2026 received an offer.
We will never promise a place: the Department marks the exam and the cut-offs move every year. What we can promise is that you will know where your child stands, long before the exam.
Sit the practice testWe have 2 children go through Bing (with 1 still attending weekly lessons). They have achieved scholarship and selective school offers. Additionally, they are firmly in the honours / A stream classes at their respective top tier schools.
I highly recommend Bing’s Academy to any families who would like to help their children reach their potential in a way that schools or larger group tutoring sessions cannot provide.
Before you send it to them.
Is it the real timing?
Yes. There are three papers. They take 125 minutes in total, the same as the real test. Your child can stop between papers and come back later.
Can they sit it again?
Yes, as many times as they like. The answer choices are mixed up each time.
Is there more than one test?
There is one free test. They can sit it as many times as they like. Students in our tutoring get more tests.
Is this the current format?
Yes. The test is made by Cambridge Assessment. It changed at the end of 2025. Our papers match the test as it is now, and we update them when it changes. Many books and worksheets were made for the old test. Practising with them means practising for a test that is gone.
How do they come back to their answers?
When they hand in, your child gets their own link. Save it or bookmark it. It opens their page, with all their answers, on any device. A new device just asks for your child's first name. On the same browser, this page also takes them back. Without the link, a new device starts fresh.
Do you see what my child does?
We can see that they sat the test and the score they got. Nobody watches them while they work, and we never share it with anyone.
See where your child stands.
Writing is the fourth paper, and this test does not include it. Try the writing room