Click to enlargeMatrices, Series & Codes
The three types that carry most marks, at exam difficulty.
- 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 6, NVR Advanced Techniques
- Next book in the series: Book 8, Advanced Spatial Reasoning
What's inside NVR Mastery 7
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.
Twelve tests on nothing but the types that carry the most marks: matrices, series, codes, pattern grids and analogies.
Every test in this book is two of the high-value GL types, never a 3D type: 3 × 3 matrices and codes, series and pattern grids, 2 × 2 matrices and analogies. Twenty-four sections of the questions that decide a GL NVR score, at exam difficulty, in Year 5 Term 2.
Two features, two rules: shape by row, shading by column.
Check each feature on its own, ask whether it stays the same, changes, or appears once in each row, count for number patterns, then build the missing square before looking at the options. The answers use the same language: "each row and column has one of each shape; each row and column has one of each shading."
Take the first letter of every code, find two figures that share it, and say what they have in common.
Check that figures with a different first letter do not have that feature. Repeat for the second and third letters. Describe the test figure feature by feature, build its code, then cross out options one position at a time. Letters in the same position always describe the same feature.
Series at exam difficulty.
Which option fills the empty box in the sequence: twenty questions in twelve minutes, at exam difficulty, so the method for tracking each change is automatic before the papers in Book 10.
Every matrix answer states its rule in full.
"Rule: each row and column has one of each shape; the number of shapes…" The rule is the lesson, and it is printed for every question.
All 12 tests in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 5 books in NVR Mastery
NVR Advanced Techniques
Every type again at Year 5 standard, with the technique for each.
Advanced Spatial Reasoning
Hard 3D and spatial questions, the ones children guess at.
Year 5 Test Book
12 mixed tests at full exam standard.
NVR Exam Papers
Full-length papers to sit under the clock.