OLSAT 3rd Grade 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: If you fold a square piece of paper in half diagonally, what shape do you get?
- Rectangle
- Square
- Triangle (Correct answer)
- Pentagon
Correct answer: Triangle
Folding a square diagonally creates a right triangle with two equal legs.
Question 2: What is the next number in the sequence? 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, ___
- 18
- 20
- 21 (Correct answer)
- 19
Correct answer: 21
Each step increases by one more than the previous step (+2, +3, +4, +5, +6), so 15 + 6 = 21.
Question 3: Sam is taller than Amy. Amy is taller than Ben. Who is the shortest?
- Sam
- Amy
- Ben (Correct answer)
- Cannot be determined
Correct answer: Ben
Sam > Amy > Ben, so Ben is the shortest of the three.
Question 4: Which word is most similar in meaning to 'enormous'?
- Tiny
- Huge (Correct answer)
- Average
- Narrow
Correct answer: Huge
Enormous means very large, which is closest in meaning to huge.
Question 5: A farmer plants 7 rows of corn with 9 plants in each row. How many corn plants are there in all?
- 16
- 54
- 63 (Correct answer)
- 72
Correct answer: 63
7 rows × 9 plants per row = 63 plants in total.
Question 6: Which of these would weigh the MOST?
- A feather
- A textbook (Correct answer)
- A pencil
- A sheet of paper
Correct answer: A textbook
A textbook is much heavier than a feather, pencil, or sheet of paper.
Question 7: In a classroom of 30 students, half are girls. If 5 girls are absent, how many girls are in class?
- 10 (Correct answer)
- 20
- 15
- 25
Correct answer: 10
Half of 30 is 15 girls total; 15 − 5 absent = 10 girls present.
OLSAT 3rd Grade 4
If you fold a square piece of paper in half diagonally, what shape do you get?