Sharpen Your Mind: The 5-Day Thinking Skills Booster for the 2026 OC Placement Test

Thinking Skills is the cornerstone of the Opportunity Class Placement Test, demanding exceptional cognitive flexibility and analytical prowess. This intensive, 5-day academic booster is meticulously designed to sharpen your child’s critical thinking, problem-solving, and logical reasoning abilities under exam conditions. It is a high-impact sprint engineered to provide a decisive mental edge, enabling your child to navigate the complexities of the Thinking Skills section with speed and confidence.

Who is This Booster For?

This program is for the Year 4 student who needs a concentrated push to master the abstract and analytical demands of the OC test. It is ideal for students who need to rapidly enhance their capabilities in:

• Interpreting Logical Statements: A rapid upskilling in deciphering complex logical statements, identifying underlying assumptions, and evaluating the validity of arguments.
• Navigating Verbal and Abstract Reasoning: An intensive workshop on extracting and interpreting information from dense or abstract language, a critical skill for verbal reasoning questions.
• Spatial Reasoning Complexity: Accelerating the ability to visualize, manipulate, and identify patterns in complex spatial reasoning tasks.
• Identifying Argument Flaws: A focused module on the key principles of critical analysis and logical deduction, enabling students to quickly spot flaws in arguments.
• Time Pressure and Decision Making: Advanced strategies for making accurate decisions and solving complex problems under strict time constraints.
• Handling Unfamiliar Question Formats: Boosting the ability to analyze and deconstruct novel question types, reducing confusion and improving performance on unfamiliar problems.
• Synthesising Complex Information: A concentrated effort on analyzing multiple pieces of information simultaneously to form a coherent understanding and derive correct solutions.

The Accelerated Learning System

Our booster methodology is designed for maximum impact in a compressed timeframe. Every component is optimised for accelerated learning and retention:

• Full 2-Hour Interactive Zoom Sprints: Each day features a two-hour, high-energy, interactive session. These are not lectures but intensive workshops focused on active problem-solving, logical puzzles, and rapid skill acquisition.
• Your Dedicated Success Coach: To ensure this boost is personalised, each student is paired with a Success Coach. They provide targeted feedback, track accelerated progress, and ensure your child masters the thinking skills they need most.
• Daily High-Impact Homework: Targeted daily assignments are designed to immediately reinforce the concepts from each session. This isn’t busy work; it’s a crucial part of the rapid reinforcement cycle, allowing the coach to pinpoint and resolve any lingering difficulties overnight.
• 7-Day Support Hotline: Your support network remains active 7 days a week. Contact us with any concerns for an immediate response, ensuring momentum is never lost during this critical booster week.

Exclusive Access to App Enabled Learning (BETA)

Students build the language of reasoning, not by rote, but through interactive play. The app trains the vocabulary that powers Thinking Skills: logical connectives (however, unless), quantifiers (some, all, none), argument terms (premise, assumption, conclusion), and common trap words. By learning, practising, and applying these in real question scenarios, students read stems more precisely, avoid trick wording, and answer faster and more accurately. A strong reasoning vocabulary is essential for Thinking Skills success.

Thinking Skills is often the toughest part of the Selective exam, highly specific, fast, and unforgiving. Our program turns it into a learnable system: students practise hundreds of reasoning and logic items in a fun, repeatable way until patterns and strategies “click.” The result is sharper problem-solving, faster decisions, and real exam confidence. Enrolment includes access to Scholarly’s custom-built Thinking Skills App (BETA) for targeted drills, step-by-step explanations, and progress tracking.