OLSAT Cheat Sheet 2026

The 30 highest-yield OLSAT facts, distilled from real exam questions. Print it, save it as a PDF, or study it here — free, no sign-up.

1. Complete the analogy: Author is to Book as Composer is to ___. → Symphony
2. Which conclusion follows logically: 'All athletes train hard. Maria trains hard.' Therefore ___. → Maria might be an athlete
3. Which shape has the most lines of symmetry: equilateral triangle, square, regular pentagon, regular hexagon? → Regular hexagon
4. Which word is closest in meaning to 'ephemeral'? → Transient
5. Maria has 24 stickers. She gives away 1/3 of them. How many does she have left? → 16
6. Which of these is a color: happy, blue, run, large? → Blue
7. Which of these is NOT a prime number: 11, 13, 17, 21? → 21
8. Alex and Mitch made twenty cookies. Alex ate four of them, while Mitch consumed half. How much of the cookies remained? → 6
9. Redundant : Necessary :: Superfluous : ___ → Essential
10. Which word does NOT belong with the others? Dog, Cat, Rose, Hamster → Rose
11. A grid pattern has a dot moving one cell right and one cell down each step. If it starts at position (1,1), where is it after 3 steps? → (4,4)
12. How many legs does an insect have? → 6
13. A library is to books as a museum is to ___. → Exhibits
14. If a pencil costs 25 cents and you pay with a dollar, how much change do you get? → 75 cents
15. Which pair of words are ANTONYMS? → Above and Below
16. Which shape has four equal sides and four right angles? → Square
17. Which word is a type of animal: run, jump, rabbit, fast? → Rabbit
18. Solve: 2(x − 3) = 4x − 10. What is x? → 2
19. What a hotel needs is _____ → beds
20. Which word does NOT belong: comedy, tragedy, sonnet, drama? → Sonnet
21. A farmer has 30 eggs divided equally into 5 baskets. How many eggs are in each basket? → 6
22. In a matrix puzzle, Row 1: △◯□, Row 2: ◯□△, Row 3: □△?. What shape completes Row 3? → ◯
23. Decrease → Increase : Shallow → → Deep
24. There is a pattern to the numbers in the box. What number should the question mark be replaced with? → 39
25. What is the missing piece: ▲ ■ ▲ ■ ▲ ___? → ■
26. What is the next number in the sequence: 3, 7, 13, 21, 31, ___? → 43
27. If a train travels 60 mph for 2.5 hours, how far does it travel? → 150 miles
28. In a number matrix, row 1 = [2, 4, 8], row 2 = [3, 6, 12]. What is the missing value in row 3 = [5, 10, ___]? → 20
29. The following terms make sense when combined. There is one among them that is not one of them. Which one is out of place? → Soil
30. In a series of shapes, each square is rotated 90° clockwise. If the first square has a dot in the top-left corner, where is the dot after 3 rotations? → Bottom-left