Leadership Skills Worksheet: Part 1 Test
Leader's tip (Lead yourself first): Find the skill in the question: responsibility, promises, self-discipline, time, confidence, mistakes or mindset. Use that lesson’s tip — own it and fix it, promise less and deliver, homework first, steps with dates, confident not cocky, what can we learn, not yet. For day sums, add the days the steps need and take them away from the days you have.
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- 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) boasting about marks (b) talking over others (c) bragging after a win (d) avoiding new things
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reporting a broken bench (b) doing your fair share (c) blaming a teammate (d) checking your own work
- 3.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) owning up to a mistake (b) doing your class duty (c) doing your fair share (d) blaming the weather
- 5.True or false: “hiding the result” is learning from a mistake. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
- 7.True or false: “Her work is great — what can I learn from it?” shows a fixed mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 8.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 9.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I didn’t do my part because nobody told me again.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 10.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) doing your class duty (b) leaving the mess behind (c) hiding a broken item (d) waiting to be told
- 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 12.🤝 Reliable or unreliable: saying yes to please all? (a) reliable (b) unreliable
- 13.💪 Confidence, low confidence or showing off: mocking weaker players? (a) showing off (b) confidence (c) low confidence
- 14.🤝 Was the promise kept or broken? “I promised to help paint the banner, then went home.” (a) a promise kept (b) a promise broken
- 15.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Her work is great — what can I learn from it?” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 16.True or false: “Mistakes help me learn.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 17.💪 Confidence, low confidence or showing off: asking for help? (a) showing off (b) low confidence (c) confidence
- 18.📉 You failed a test. A fixed mindset thinks… (a) “I am not smart.” (b) “I’ll ask for help.” (c) “I will practise more.” (d) “I need a new plan.”
- 19.🌤️ What does a positive attitude mean? (a) blaming others (b) seeing ways forward (c) expecting the worst (d) complaining a lot
- 20.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: asking what went wrong? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 21.Which of these shows self-discipline? (a) phone away for study (b) waking up late daily (c) gaming till midnight (d) leaving tasks half-done
- 22.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I am just not a maths person.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) asking for help early (c) ignoring feedback (d) praising effort
- 24.Which of these shows low confidence? (a) boasting about marks (b) never raising a hand (c) trying for the team (d) speaking up in class
- 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 26.True or false: “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: “envying others” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🪑 You see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) report it to a teacher (b) tell nobody (c) sit on it anyway (d) ignore it
- 29.True or false: “saying “not my job”” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
- 32.📒 What is a good way not to forget your promises? (a) write them down (b) hope for the best (c) never promise anything (d) make more promises
- 33.🏅 Which praise builds a growth mindset? (a) “You worked so hard!” (b) “It’s easy for you.” (c) “You are a genius!” (d) “You were born smart.”
- 34.Which of these is a reliable habit? (a) saying no if you can’t (b) promising then vanishing (c) forgetting what you said (d) agreeing to everything
- 35.True or false: “Hard work helps me improve.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
- 38.🧪 Your team’s science model fell apart at the fair. A positive leader says… (a) “This team is useless.” (b) “Let’s never try again.” (c) “What can we learn?” (d) “I knew it would fail.”
- 39.Which of these is giving up after a mistake? (a) noting the lesson (b) trying a new method (c) saying sorry and fixing (d) saying “I’m just bad”
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) asking for feedback (b) asking what went wrong (c) tearing up the work (d) practising the weak part
Answer key
- avoiding new things
- blaming a teammate
- False
- blaming the weather
- False
- one huge deadline
- False
- an excuse
- an excuse
- doing your class duty
- good planning
- unreliable
- showing off
- a promise broken
- growth mindset
- True
- confidence
- “I am not smart.”
- seeing ways forward
- learning from it
- phone away for study
- fixed mindset
- ignoring feedback
- never raising a hand
- poor planning
- True
- False
- report it to a teacher
- False
- True
- this week
- write them down
- “You worked so hard!”
- saying no if you can’t
- True
- good planning
- ignoring the timetable
- “What can we learn?”
- saying “I’m just bad”
- tearing up the work
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