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. Which conclusion follows logically: 'All athletes train hard. Maria trains hard.' Therefore ___. → Maria might be an athlete
2. Which shape has the most lines of symmetry: equilateral triangle, square, regular pentagon, regular hexagon? → Regular hexagon
3. Which word is closest in meaning to 'ephemeral'? → Transient
4. Which of these is a color: happy, blue, run, large? → Blue
5. Which of these is NOT a prime number: 11, 13, 17, 21? → 21
6. Alex and Mitch made twenty cookies. Alex ate four of them, while Mitch consumed half. How much of the cookies remained? → 6
7. Redundant : Necessary :: Superfluous : ___ → Essential
8. 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)
9. How many legs does an insect have? → 6
10. A library is to books as a museum is to ___. → Exhibits
11. If a pencil costs 25 cents and you pay with a dollar, how much change do you get? → 75 cents
12. Which shape has four equal sides and four right angles? → Square
13. Which word is a type of animal: run, jump, rabbit, fast? → Rabbit
14. Solve: 2(x − 3) = 4x − 10. What is x? → 2
15. What a hotel needs is _____ → beds
16. Which word does NOT belong: comedy, tragedy, sonnet, drama? → Sonnet
17. A farmer has 30 eggs divided equally into 5 baskets. How many eggs are in each basket? → 6
18. Decrease → Increase : Shallow → → Deep
19. There is a pattern to the numbers in the box. What number should the question mark be replaced with? → 39
20. What is the missing piece: ▲ ■ ▲ ■ ▲ ___? → ■
21. What is the next number in the sequence: 3, 7, 13, 21, 31, ___? → 43
22. If a train travels 60 mph for 2.5 hours, how far does it travel? → 150 miles
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. Which figure completes the matrix if a large white circle → large gray circle → large black circle pattern applies? → Large gray circle
27. Complete the analogy: Arid is to desert as frigid is to ___. → Tundra
28. The following terms make sense when combined. There is one among them that is not one of them. Which one is out of place? → sluggish
29. If □ - 7 = 15, what is □? → 22
30. A tree is to forest as a star is to ___. → Galaxy