Click to enlargeThe Definitive Guide to 11+ Verbal Reasoning
All 21 GL-style verbal reasoning question types, 580 fresh questions, and two full 80-question mock papers.
- All 21 GL-style verbal reasoning question types
- A strategy page, 90% checklist and time target for each
- 580 fresh questions in the GL format
- Two full mock papers, 80 questions in 50 minutes, with answer sheets
- Every answer with its working
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Your next step
This guide prepares your child for the GL-style paper. The 11+ VR Mastery Series goes further: 10 books that teach every topic from the first term of Year 4, in order, so nothing is left to the final months.
How this book is used in our course
One question type at a time, with a pencil moving. Read the strategy page, run the method on the worked examples, then do the 20 questions. Anything below 18 out of 20 goes back to the method. Once every type is at 90%, sit the mock papers aiming to finish in 30 minutes and check with the rest.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 2, The Definitive Guide to 11+ Maths
- Next book in the series: Book 4, The Definitive Guide to 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning
What's inside Definitive Guide 3
Five real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 12 sample pages are in the viewer.
Eighty questions in fifty minutes, and 21 question types a child must be ready for.
Any one paper uses about 13 of the 21 types, so a child cannot know which will appear. Our tutors train children to finish in 30 minutes, in three 10-minute blocks, leaving time to return to the hardest questions. That only works when every type has a fixed method the child can run without thinking. This guide gives one for each.
Stop reading for meaning. Look at the letters.
Hidden four-letter words: what the examiner is testing, a method that reads across every gap three ways, the traps, a 90% checklist and a time target. The same structure for all 21 types, so the routine becomes automatic long before the exam.
Same move, alternating moves, growing moves, or mirror letters.
Write the word above its code, letter above letter. Work out the move for each letter in numbers, not by counting. Look for the pattern in the moves, apply it in order to code, in reverse to decode. A method that cracks every code type the papers use.
Two full mock papers: 80 questions, 50 minutes, target finish 30.
Each mirrors the order and mix of a real GL-style paper, including the questions that need two answers. A separate answer sheet with every paper, so a child practises the marking format as well as the questions.
All 580 questions answered, with the working.
"t + ent = tent, hidden across goat entered." Short, exact explanations a parent can read straight off the page, and a child can use to fix the method rather than just the answer.
All 21 question types in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 5 & 6 books in Definitive Guide
The Definitive Guide to 11+ English
GL-style comprehension and reading skills: 14 question types, 360 fresh questions on original passages, and two mock papers.
The Definitive Guide to 11+ Maths
Every GL-style maths question type: 17 concepts, 440 fresh questions, a strategy for each, and two full 50-question mock papers.
The Definitive Guide to 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning
Shapes, patterns and codes: 9 concepts, 260 fresh questions, one checklist for every type, and two mock papers.