OLSAT practice for kindergarten

Question types in kindergarten

• Verbal Comprehension: In kindergarten to 2nd grade a direction is read aloud once, such as where to find a shape or a letter, and your child marks the picture that matches. From 3rd grade your child reads: opposites, sentences with a missing word, and scrambled words to put in order.
• Verbal Reasoning: In kindergarten to 2nd grade a short story or description is read aloud once, and your child picks the picture that fits it or shows how many. From 3rd grade: word analogies, the word that doesn’t belong, short written word problems, choosing what must be true, and grids of related words or letters. In 4th and 5th grade, conclusions that follow from two or three facts.
• Pictorial Reasoning: Picture analogies (two pictures go together; find the one that goes with a third in the same way), finding the picture that doesn’t belong with the others, and, in kindergarten and 1st grade, picture patterns: what comes next in a row.
• Figural Reasoning: Shape analogies in a 2×2 grid, shape patterns in a row (which shape comes next), the shape that doesn’t belong (to 3rd grade), and from 1st grade 3×3 pattern grids where shapes change across rows and down columns.