Our 11+ resources are designed to teach skills and then discreetly test your child with exam-style questions and practice papers too. Giving you visibility to their progress. To help you support your child best, our resources are aligned to exam boards with progressive leveling, starting at year 3 and working to exam-style questions and practice papers in year 5. This allows you to set your child at a level that suits them and develop the skills needed overtime; removing exam pressure and building their confidence.
Verbal reasoning bears more resemblance to skills your child will have started to develop at school, but significantly uses these skills in very different ways. These types of questions focus on being able to understand and work out problems focused on words and letters. Numbers can be involved (such as in codes or problem solving), but only where they still relate in some way to words or letters. Students with a large vocabulary from Key Stage 2 and strong foundations in mental maths and problem solving skills will find verbal reasoning more accessible. At EdPlace our activities focus on building this core base early from Year 3 alongside familiarising students with the presentation of questions in this style which exactly replicates what your child will see in the 11+ exam.
11+ Verbal Reasoning Skills |
Exam Board |
Move a Letter |
GL |
Partial Word |
CEM / GL |
Antonyms |
CEM / GL |
Word Connections |
CEM / GL |
Number Sequences |
GL |
Problem Solving |
GL |
Letter Connections |
GL |
Compound Words |
CEM / GL |
Maths Codes |
GL |
Insert a Letter |
CEM / GL |
Word Relationships |
CEM / GL |
Synonyms |
CEM / GL |
Word Scrambles |
GL |
Hidden Word |
CEM / GL |
Word Merge |
GL |
Complete the Calculation |
GL |
Number Logic |
GL |
Multiple Meanings |
CEM / GL |
Letter Sequences |
GL |
Number Code Breaking |
GL |
Letter Code Breaking |
GL |
Homophones |
CEM |
Jumbled Sentences |
CEM |
Jumbled Words |
CEM |
How to use our resources to achieve results
Our 11+ resources are designed to teach skills and then discreetly test your child with exam-style questions and practice papers too. Giving you visibility to their progress. To help you support your child best, our resources are aligned to exam boards with progressive leveling, starting at year 3 and working to exam-style questions and practice papers in year 5. This allows you to set your child at a level that suits them and develop the skills needed overtime; removing exam pressure and building their confidence.
Learn the skills using our resources, practice what you’ve learnt with our exam-style questions and test for exam readiness with our practice papers - success!
Our resources are designed to teach skills through our teacher-guided activities and then discreetly test your child with exam-style questions and practice papers. Giving you visibility to their progress.
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TRY IT FOR FREEApply the letter pattern to create a new word
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TRY IT FOR FREEBuild and Split Compound Words
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TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Homonyms that Fit
TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Letter Which Creates a New Word
TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Letter Which Creates a New Word
TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Letter Which Creates a New Word
TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Symbol that Follows the Rule
TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Symbol that Follows the Rule
TRY IT FOR FREEChoose the Symbol that Follows the Rule
TRY IT FOR FREEComplete the Homophone Sentence
TRY IT FOR FREEComplete the Letter Sequence
TRY IT FOR FREEComplete the Reverse Letter Sequence
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TRY IT FOR FREEComplete the Shape Sequence
TRY IT FOR FREEConnect 2D Shapes
TRY IT FOR FREEConsider Various Meanings to Find Synonym Pairs
TRY IT FOR FREEConsider Various Meanings to Find Synonym Pairs
TRY IT FOR FREEConsider Various Meanings to Find Synonym Pairs
TRY IT FOR FREEConstruct a Compound Shape Using 2D Shapes
TRY IT FOR FREEContinue the Letter Sequence
TRY IT FOR FREECrack the Letter Code
TRY IT FOR FREEDemonstrate Your Understanding of Antonyms
TRY IT FOR FREEExchange Two Words in Longer Sentences
TRY IT FOR FREEExchange Two Words in Longer Sentences
TRY IT FOR FREEExplain Homophones
TRY IT FOR FREEFamiliarise Yourself with New Antonyms
TRY IT FOR FREEFill in a Letter to Complete a Word Using Clues
TRY IT FOR FREEFill in a Letter to Complete a Word Using Context
TRY IT FOR FREEFill in the Missing Word Using the Pattern
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TRY IT FOR FREEFill the Gap in the Homophone Sentence
TRY IT FOR FREEFind Regular Hidden Shapes with Shared Edges
TRY IT FOR FREEFind Regular Shapes Inside Other Shapes 1
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind Related and Unrelated Shapes by Elimination
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind Similarities and Differences Between Image Pairs
TRY IT FOR FREEFind Similarities and Differences between Multiple Shapes
TRY IT FOR FREEFind Single Letter Codes
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the 3D Block Shape from the Plan View
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the 3D Cube Net
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Antonym
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Correct Number of Holes in Folded Paper
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Hidden Four Letter Word
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Missing Symbol to Complete the Grid
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Missing Symbol to Complete the Grid
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Missing Word Using Complex Patterns
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Missing Word Using Complex Patterns
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind the new word inside the existing word
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TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Plan View for an Arrangement of Cubes
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Plan View of a Simple Shape Made From Cubes
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Regular or Irregular Shape Folded Vertically
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Rotation of the Original Shape
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Shape Folded in Half Vertically
TRY IT FOR FREEFind the Shape Unfolded Vertically to the Left
TRY IT FOR FREEFind Words with Similar Meanings Amongst Known Words
TRY IT FOR FREEFind Words with Similar Meanings Amongst Known Words
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TRY IT FOR FREEFinish the Letter Sequence
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TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Antonyms
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Changes in Quantity and Frequency of Shapes
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Combinations of Letters Which Create New Words
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Combinations of Letters Which Create New Words
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Combinations of Letters Which Create New Words
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TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Differences in Colour, Size, Weight and Orientation
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TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Multiple Meanings
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Nets for Cubes, Cuboids and Square-based Pyramids
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Rotated 3D Shapes
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Sequence Types and Find Missing End Numbers
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Sequence Types and Find Missing End Numbers
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Sequence Types and Find Missing End Numbers
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TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Sequence Types and Find Missing Numbers (Advanced Times Tables)
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Sequence Types and Find Missing Numbers (Advanced Times Tables)
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Sequence Types and Find Missing Numbers (Advanced Times Tables)
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Single Letter Codes
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Size, Shading and Outlines in a Rotated Shape
TRY IT FOR FREEIdentify Smaller 3D Shapes Which Create a Composite 3D Shape
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TRY IT FOR FREELearn Common Homophones
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TRY IT FOR FREEMatch Plan Views with 3D Block Shapes
TRY IT FOR FREEObserve Differences Between Cubes, Cuboids and Cylinders
TRY IT FOR FREEPractice Letter Code Breaking
TRY IT FOR FREERearrange Anagrams
TRY IT FOR FREERearrange Simple Sentences (Four Words)
TRY IT FOR FREERearrange Simple Sentences (Four Words)
TRY IT FOR FREERearrange Simple Sentences (Three Words)
TRY IT FOR FREERearrange Simple Sentences (Three Words)
TRY IT FOR FREERecognise 3D Cube Nets
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TRY IT FOR FREERecognise Multiple Meanings
TRY IT FOR FREERecognise the Correct Number Operation
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TRY IT FOR FREESolve Alphabet Sequences Using Letter Pairs in a Forward Direction Only
TRY IT FOR FREESolve Alphabet Sequences Using Letter Pairs in a Forwards Direction Only
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TRY IT FOR FREESort Context-based Jumbled Words
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TRY IT FOR FREESpot How the Paper has been Folded
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TRY IT FOR FREESubstitute Numbers for Letters in Calculations with Three Steps
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TRY IT FOR FREESubstitute Numbers for Letters in Calculations with Three Steps
TRY IT FOR FREESubstitute Numbers for Letters in Complex Calculations (No Division)
TRY IT FOR FREESubstitute Numbers for Letters in Complex Calculations (No Division)
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TRY IT FOR FREESubstitute Numbers for Letters in Simple Sums
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TRY IT FOR FREETranslate the Letter Code
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TRY IT FOR FREEUnderline the Anagram Letters
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TRY IT FOR FREEHow to use our resources to achieve results
Here at EdPlace, we believe that helping your child achieve their best on the 11+ exam doesn’t start in year 5. It’s important to understand your child’s full potential and help them develop the skills needed as early as year 3. This will also help you gauge your child’s prospects, ensuring they really shine at grammar school. Our aim is to help take away the exam pressure for your child whilst building their skills and confidence so they can achieve their best. Our revision resources are designed to help students aged 8 to 11 build up to the skills and levels needed to pass the 11+. We’re confident our non-verbal, spatial and verbal reasoning, maths/numerical reasoning and English resources tailored to CEM and GL will help your child soar; and whatever the outcome, we’ll be here to support them on the other side of the 11+ exam too, right up to GCSE!
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