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Free Gifted & Talented (GATE) Practice Test for Grade 1

Free Grade 1 Gifted & Talented (GATE) practice test with answers and explanations across quantitative and nonverbal reasoning.

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1. Figural Analogies

Grade 1 figural analogies question. A three-by-three circle pattern changes by swapping every filled blue circle with an empty circle. A second pattern must change by the same rule. Choices A through D show different filled-circle arrangements.
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Answer B. Every filled circle becomes empty, and every empty circle becomes filled. Applying that same reversal to the second pattern gives B.

2. Pattern Completion

Grade 1 pattern completion question. A repeating orange, green, and white triangle design has a rectangular piece missing near the top. Choices A through D show different pattern fragments.
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Answer C. The triangle edges and colors must continue across the missing space without a break. Only C completes every line and preserves the orange, green, and white pattern.

3. Matrix Reasoning

Grade 1 matrix reasoning question. A large blue and orange checkerboard reverses its colors from left to right. A smaller checkerboard must follow the same rule. Choices A through D show different three-by-three color patterns.
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Answer A. The first pair swaps every blue square with an orange square. Applying the same color swap to the smaller checkerboard creates the pattern in A.

4. Spatial Reasoning

Grade 1 spatial reasoning question. Blue diamonds, orange squares, a black diamond, and a blue trapezoid form a two-row matrix. Choices A through D show different combinations and positions of the lower shapes.
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Answer A. The first pair combines the two shapes and switches their positions. Applying that rule below places the blue trapezoid above the black diamond. This gives A.

5. Number Series

Grade 1 number series question. The bead strings alternate between an empty rod and a rod with six blue beads. Choices A through D show rods with one, four, zero, or six beads.
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Answer C. The rods alternate between empty and six beads: empty, six, empty, six. The next rod must be empty. This gives C.

6. Picture Analogies

Grade 1 picture analogy question. Ice cream is paired with a tongue, and a flower must be paired with the matching sense organ. Choices are a nose, tongue, spider web, and ear.
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Answer A. The first pair matches an object with the sense used for it: you taste ice cream with your tongue. You smell a flower with your nose, so A completes the same relationship.

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