11 Plus Verbal Reasoning
In primary school when children are about to leave their final year ( year 6) they may opt take the 11 plus. This test is given to pupils who want to attend a grammar secondary school. Generally, pupils will be of the age of 10 when they take this assessment test.
Typically these 11 plus test contain 4 disciplines such as: Maths, English, Verbal and Non verbal.
The Verbal Reasoning part of the 11 plus Test assessment will require students’ ability to recognise patterns and relationships between words and sentences. anyone who wants to score highly on the verbal reasoning part of the tests must practice a wide variety of verbal reasoning type questions.
Below are some sample questions to give you an idea of the type of questions asked in verbal reasoning tests for 11 plus. Try and see how many can you get right?
1. Which of the following is the odd one out?
A B C D
Know Slow How Grow
2. The word outside of the brackets will only go with three of the words inside the brackets to make longer words. Which ONE word will it NOT go with?
Im (patience paid pair mature )
3. The following sentence has one word missing. Which word makes the best sense when placed in the sentence?
John checked the ______________ for holiday dates.
A – calandar
B – calendar
C – calender
D – calendar
4. Find the letters that best complete the series. The alphabet has been provided to assist you.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ZA XC VE TG [ ]
A – RH
B – IS
C – IR
D –RI
5. Pick one word from each groups below, when joined together make a new word. (The word on the left always comes first in the new word).
(MOON PLANET EARTH) (SOLAR LIGHT SYSTEM)
ANSWERS:
Q1. C = how
EXPLANATION = it is pronounced differently than all the other 3 words.
Q2. B = paid
EXPLANATION = if you were to put ‘im’ with the words ‘patience’, ‘pair’ and ‘mature’, you would get: impatience, impar and immature. However, if you tried to put ‘im’ with ‘paid’, it would not be grammatically correct.
Q3. B = calendar
EXPLANATION = the word that would best complete the sentence would be ‘calendar’. This is the only correct spelling of the word.
Q4. D = RI
EXPLANATION = each group is made of first letter from the back of the alphabet and second from the front of the alphabet. They move two spaces each time. So after TG you will get RI in the sequence.
Q5. moonlight
EXPLANATION = you can put the word ‘moon’, with the word ‘light’, to make the new word ‘moonlight’.