Academically gifted students heading into Year 5 next year will spend a large portion of their summer school holidays combing over practice questions in a bid to gain entry into selective high schools across NSW for 2022. The official practice test, endorsed by the NSW Department of Education, was released last Friday - and it is big business for tutoring companies. Sample questions from the practice test require a high level of problem solving as well as critical thinking - and they are challenging to say the least. One of the sample questions (pictured above) from the practice test for students looking to sit for selective schools in March ahead of starting Year 7 in 2022