NVR Advanced Techniques

Every type again at Year 5 standard, with the technique for each.

Written forYear 5, Term 1

FormatOnline reader, any device. Child works in an exercise book alongside.

£29 one child · open until the end of exam season

12 tests of 40 questions in every book, in two sections of 20
No more than 20 questions of one type in a week, so each type is learned properly
Built for three passes: two timed attempts on the progress chart, then a cold third pass before the exam
Full answer key

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How this book is used in our course

Each test is sat under the clock: two sections of 20 questions. Mark, record, and go back over every wrong answer with the child explaining the rule they missed. The book is built for three passes: the second attempt weeks later proves the rule stuck rather than the answer being remembered, and a cold third pass before the exam proves it is still there.

Where it sits in the series

Previous book in the series: Book 5, Year 4 Test Book
Next book in the series: Book 7, Matrices, Series & Codes

Look inside

What's inside NVR Mastery 6

Five real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 10 sample pages are in the viewer.

Contents

Every question type again, at Year 5 standard, with the technique for each restated for harder questions.

Year 5 Term 1 starts here: similarities, odd one out, analogies, series, both matrix types, codes and pattern grids, paired with reflection, rotation, rotating by degrees, reverse fills, symmetry, replica figures, silhouettes, hidden shapes, unfolding, fold and punch and counting cubes. Twelve tests, twelve minutes a section.

Technique · Rotating by Degrees

90° is a quarter turn, 270° clockwise is 90° anticlockwise, 45° is half a quarter turn.

Pick one part, an arrow tip or a black square, and turn just that first. Then check where every other part goes in the same turn, and make sure the answer is not a mirror image. The Watch-out box gives the shortcut for grid patterns: after a 90° clockwise turn, the top row becomes the right-hand column.

Test 1 · Similarities

Year 5 similarities: the rule often combines two features.

"Exactly 1 small mark outside the shape and the large shape is grey." "A dashed outline." "3 straight lines cross the shape." Twenty questions in twelve minutes, at the standard of the real paper.

Test 7 · Codes

Three-letter codes, Year 5 standard.

Letters in the same position always describe the same feature; the features that change but have no letter are there to distract. Twenty questions on that one rule.