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Written Selection Test
4 sections · 122 questions · ~2 hours 5 minutes. Tap a section to start a quiz.
Mechanical reasoning: 32 questions in 20 minutes — under 40 seconds each. Speed is as important as accuracy.
Strategy guides — read before you quiz
Literacy — reading comprehension
About this section
30 questions · 35 minutes · Multiple-choice plus some true/false. You read a text and answer questions about it. The text contains all the information you need — never use outside knowledge.
5 question types
Key strategies from the ACER book
- Read the text first, then read the questions. Return to the text with the questions in mind — this is faster than trying to hold the questions in your head while reading.
- For detail questions: the answer is in the text. Find the relevant sentence before selecting. Never guess from memory.
- For inference questions: the answer is implied, not stated. Find what the text strongly suggests — not what you think is true.
- For true/false: the entire statement must be true. A statement that is mostly true but has one wrong detail is false.
- Eliminate wrong answers first. If two answers look close, re-read the relevant section of the text carefully.
- There is always a correct answer. If none seems right, re-read the question — you may have misread it.
- Timing: 35 minutes for 30 questions = just over 1 minute per question. Skip difficult ones and come back.
Remember that texts may include graphs, charts, diagrams and maps. Read these as carefully as you read the words — questions may refer to them directly.
Numeracy — maths and calculation
About this section
30 questions · 35 minutes · Mix of numeric entry (type your answer) and multiple-choice. Uses a computer — no calculator provided. You are given scrap paper.
Topics covered
- Number and algebra — percentages, fractions, decimals, rates, ratios, simple and compound interest, depreciation, pay calculations
- Measurement and geometry — area, volume, perimeter, scale, unit conversion, maps and directions
- Statistics and probability — mean, median, graphs and charts, data interpretation
7-step strategy from the ACER book
1. Look carefully at the image, table or question
2. Identify exactly what is being asked
3. Identify each component and the information given
4. Think about what calculation or process is needed
5. Work through the problem — use your scrap paper
6. Test your answer — does it make sense? A person running 198 km/h is obviously wrong.
7. Reverse-check the excluded options if time allows
2. Identify exactly what is being asked
3. Identify each component and the information given
4. Think about what calculation or process is needed
5. Work through the problem — use your scrap paper
6. Test your answer — does it make sense? A person running 198 km/h is obviously wrong.
7. Reverse-check the excluded options if time allows
Key formulas to know
- Percentage increase/decrease: (change ÷ original) × 100
- Compound interest: P × (1 + r)^n where r is rate per period, n is periods
- Simple interest: P × r × t
- Straight-line depreciation: (Cost − Salvage value) ÷ Useful life
- Area of rectangle: length × width. Area of circle: π × r²
- Volume of rectangular prism: l × w × h. Volume of cylinder: π × r² × h
- Mean = sum of values ÷ number of values. Median = middle value when sorted.
- Scale: real distance = map distance × scale factor
Common traps
- Percentage of the NEW value vs the ORIGINAL — read carefully which is being asked
- Compound interest ≠ simple interest. After year 1 the base changes.
- Rounding UP for whole items (you cannot buy 20.8 cartons — you need 21)
- Posts on a fence: if 420m with posts every 6m = 70 spaces + 1 = 71 posts
Abstract reasoning — patterns and shapes
About this section
30 questions · 35 minutes · All multiple-choice. Pure visual pattern recognition — no words or numbers. You must work quickly: just over 1 minute per question.
5 question types
Systematic approach — from the ACER book
Step 1 — Note the details: What shapes? How many? How many sides? Black, white or patterned? Inside or outside another shape? Lines broken or continuous?
Step 2 — Look for rules: Are shapes being added or subtracted? Are they flipping, sliding or rotating? Is the number of sides increasing or decreasing? Is there more than one rule?
Step 3 — Eliminate wrong answers: Does the option follow the pattern you identified? Is there more than one option that seems to fit? If so, look for a second rule.
Step 2 — Look for rules: Are shapes being added or subtracted? Are they flipping, sliding or rotating? Is the number of sides increasing or decreasing? Is there more than one rule?
Step 3 — Eliminate wrong answers: Does the option follow the pattern you identified? Is there more than one option that seems to fit? If so, look for a second rule.
SVG example — Find shapes that are alike
The three shapes in the top row are alike in some way. Which shape in the bottom row is most like them?
The rule: all three top-row shapes point either horizontally (left/right) or vertically (up/down) — never diagonally. Only option C (pointing right) follows this rule.
SVG example — Find the middle shape
These 5 shapes must be arranged in logical order. Which shape should be in the middle (position 3)?
Strategy: number the shapes from least to most of the changing element (here: rings). The shape with the middle number (3rd of 5) is the answer. You do not need to redraw them — just number them mentally.
Mechanical reasoning — physics and machines
About this section
32 questions · 20 minutes · Multiple-choice. This is the fastest-paced section — under 40 seconds per question. Covers: wheels and belts, gears, linked bars, levers, pulleys, fluids and pressure, forces and motion.
7-step strategy from the ACER book
1. Look carefully at ALL aspects of the image
2. Identify each component and how it moves individually
3. Think about how the components interact and move together
4. Use your scrap paper to draw or work through visually
5. Test your answer
6. Reverse-test the excluded options
7. Check your answer
2. Identify each component and how it moves individually
3. Think about how the components interact and move together
4. Use your scrap paper to draw or work through visually
5. Test your answer
6. Reverse-test the excluded options
7. Check your answer
Clockwise and anticlockwise
Clockwise follows the same direction as clock hands. Anticlockwise is the reverse. You often need to translate "handle moved left" or "handle moved right" into a rotation direction.
Gears — the core rule
Meshing gears always rotate in opposite directions. In a chain of 3 gears, the first and last rotate in the SAME direction (two reversals cancel out).
Wheels and belts — the core rule
Fixed pivot bars
A fixed pivot (shown as a black dot) is fixed in place. When one end of the bar is pushed one direction, the other end moves in the OPPOSITE direction.
Levers — the formula
- Effort × effort arm = Load × load arm
- Effort = (Load × load arm) ÷ effort arm
- Longer effort arm = less force needed
Pulleys
- A single FIXED pulley only changes direction — it provides NO mechanical advantage. Force = Load.
- A movable pulley or compound system: Force = Load ÷ number of supporting rope segments
Hydraulics (Pascal's Law)
- Pressure is equal throughout a hydraulic system
- Pressure = Force ÷ Area. Therefore: F₁/A₁ = F₂/A₂
- Larger piston area = larger output force
Speed reminder: 32 questions in 20 minutes = 37.5 seconds each. The moment you are unsure, choose and move on. You cannot come back.
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