OLSAT Level G study guide
OLSAT Level G · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
OLSAT Level G is one of the levels of the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, Eighth Edition (OLSAT 8), a multiple-choice school ability test published by Pearson that estimates a student's reasoning and problem-solving ability rather than mastery of a specific curriculum. Because it measures general reasoning, it is not something a student can cram for the night before; scores tend to move with sustained practice on the kinds of tasks the test uses. The OLSAT Level G study guide has 5 sections and about 1,435 words.
01Verbal Comprehension
Three item types dominate this domain: antonyms, sentence completion, and vocabulary in context. Antonyms demand precise dictionary meaning plus two extras - register (formal vs.
317 words, about 2 min02Verbal Reasoning
This domain covers verbal analogies, word classification (odd-one-out), and logical selection, in which you choose the conclusion that must follow from a short passage. Analogies test relationships: part-to-whole, cause-to-effect, worker-to-tool, category-to-member, degree, and function.
264 words, about 1 min03Pictorial Reasoning
Picture items ask you to compare drawings of real objects and detect a rule: picture analogies (A is to B as C is to ?), picture classification, and picture series (what comes next). The features that can change are a short, finite list: how many objects appear, their size, their position on the page, their orientation (facing left or right), their color or shading, and whether an object is added or removed.
300 words, about 2 min04Figural Reasoning
Figural items use abstract shapes - lines, dots, polygons, shading - and ask for analogies, classifications, or continuations of a series. Treat each figure as a set of independent elements: outer shape, inner shape, number of sides, fill or shading, position, and rotation.
281 words, about 1 min05Quantitative Reasoning
This domain includes number series, numeric analogies (2 : 8 as 3 : ?), and short word problems. For series, test operations in a fixed order: constant difference, constant ratio, alternating operations, differences that themselves form a pattern, and familiar sequences (squares, primes, powers of two).
273 words, about 1 min