Class 4 Maths Olympiad – Practice Questions, Pattern Test and Worked Solutions
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Class 4 Maths Olympiad — Practice Questions, Pattern Test and Worked Solutions
Class 4 · Mathematics · free, no sign-up, no negative marking
Math Olympiad › Class 4
Everything on this page is free, needs no sign-up, and has no negative marking. Class 4 is also
called Grade 4 in many schools, so these pages work for either name. If your child is being prepared
for a school maths Olympiad, or simply wants harder reasoning problems than the textbook gives, start
here.
There are three ways to use it, and they are not interchangeable. Work through the 22 starter
problems, then the 28 harder ones, then sit the full paper against a clock. Most students should
do the bank first.
Questions
50 + 35
Topics
17
Answers checked
All
Cost
Free
Question bank, part 1
Class 4 Maths Olympiad Questions with Answers — 22 Starter Problems with Worked Solutions
Question bank, part 2
Class 4 Maths Olympiad Hard Problems — 28 Advanced Questions with Worked Solutions
Practice paper
Class 4 Maths Olympiad Practice Test — 35 Questions, 60 Minutes
What the real paper looks like. The school Mathematics Olympiad for Classes 3–4 is an
objective paper of 35 questions in 60 minutes, split into three sections of
5, 10 and 20. There is no negative marking — marks are only
ever added, so a wrong answer costs exactly what leaving it blank costs. Several free worksheets
floating around online wrongly apply a penalty. The practice paper here gets it right.
Please confirm the current format on the organiser’s own website before the exam date, because
the number of questions or the section split can change from year to year.
objective paper of 35 questions in 60 minutes, split into three sections of
5, 10 and 20. There is no negative marking — marks are only
ever added, so a wrong answer costs exactly what leaving it blank costs. Several free worksheets
floating around online wrongly apply a penalty. The practice paper here gets it right.
Please confirm the current format on the organiser’s own website before the exam date, because
the number of questions or the section split can change from year to year.
How to use the three pages
- Start with the starter problems, not the paper. Attempt a question before you reveal the solution.
The answer alone teaches very little; the reasoning is the lesson. - Read the “why the other options look tempting” note. Every wrong option on this site
has a written reason attached. If the reason describes something you nearly did, that is the
problem to work on. - Work in level order, not in order. The bank is grouped into five levels. Move on when a
level stops feeling hard, not when you have finished the page. - Then sit the paper against a clock. The third section is two thirds of the paper, so
budget your time accordingly. Aim to finish section one in about 12 minutes.
The five levels
Every problem is labelled with the level it sits at, so
you can see how hard it is supposed to be.
Think · level 2 · 6 problemsChallenge · level 3 · 16 problemsOlympiad · level 4 · 18 problemsChampion · level 5 · 10 problems
Topics covered
- Counting — 5 problems
- Number patterns — 5 problems
- Money — 4 problems
- Number puzzles — 4 problems
- Remainders — 4 problems
- Arithmetic operations — 3 problems
- Fractions and decimals — 3 problems
- Geometry and symmetry — 3 problems
- Logical reasoning — 3 problems
- Time and speed — 3 problems
- Working backwards — 3 problems
- Area and perimeter — 2 problems
- Data handling — 2 problems
- Factors and multiples — 2 problems
- Numbers and place value — 2 problems
- Measurement — 1 problem
- Odd and even — 1 problem
What a school Olympiad actually rewards
- Working backwards from an answer — most hard questions are easier inverted.
- Two or three small steps that each need a different idea, rather than one clever trick.
- Reading carefully. “Exactly”, “at least” and “different” change the answer.
- Noticing what a question is not saying — three of the four options here are
built from a very common wrong reading. - Attempting everything. With no negative marking, a blank question is a guaranteed zero
and a guess is never worse.
Written and checked by Pandey Sir. Every answer on these practice pages was recomputed by a verification script before it was published — not read over by eye. Last reviewed: 28 September 2026. Spotted a mistake? Report an error or email [email protected] and it will be fixed.
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