OLSAT Level B study guide
OLSAT Level B · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
OLSAT Level B is the primary-level form of the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, eighth edition (OLSAT-8), a school ability battery published by Pearson. Level B is administered to young children in the early primary grades, typically in a group setting during a school testing window, and it is used by schools to estimate general reasoning ability rather than to measure mastery of a specific curriculum. Because it is an ability test, not an achievement test, preparation means building comfort with the kinds of reasoning tasks the test samples rather than memorizing content. The test is organized into two broad domains: a Verbal domain, which samples verbal comprehension, verbal reasoning, and related language-based thinking, and a Nonverbal domain, which samples pictorial and figural reasoning, including classification, analogy, and sequence tasks. Topics on this exam: Verbal and Nonverbal. The OLSAT Level B study guide has 2 sections and about 831 words.
01Verbal Domain - OLSAT Level B
The Verbal domain of the OLSAT Level B measures how well a primary-grade student understands and reasons with words. Items use everyday vocabulary in short sentences, so success depends on precise word meaning and on spotting the exact relationship an item asks about. Antonyms: choose the word that means the opposite, not merely a different word. Hot → cold , not warm .
445 words, about 2 min02Nonverbal Domain - OLSAT Level B
The Nonverbal domain of the OLSAT Level B removes reading from the problem. Items show pictures, geometric shapes, and patterns, and the student must find the rule that connects them. The tested skills are classification, analogy, series completion, and matrix reasoning with attributes such as size, color, shading, number, orientation, and position. Classification: exactly three figures share a feature; find the feature that excludes only the fourth.
386 words, about 2 min