Click to enlargeVR Foundations Test Book
12 mixed tests of everything in Books 1–3.
- 12 mixed tests of 48 questions, 40 minutes each
- Accessible start, then building pace, then Year 4 exam standard
- Separate answer sheets for the last four tests
- A how-to-use-each-test guide
- Answer key with working and a progress chart
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How this book is used in our course
One 48-question test a week, 40 minutes, sat quietly with a timer. Mark it with the key, explain every mistake out loud from the working, and record the score. Two mistakes on the same type means going back to its guide in Books 1–3.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 3, VR Word Skills
- Next book in the series: Book 5, VR Foundations Test Book 2
What's inside VR Mastery 4
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 9 sample pages are in the viewer.
Twelve 48-question tests that climb from an accessible start to Year 4 exam standard.
Tests 1 to 4 are an accessible start, Tests 5 to 8 build pace, and Tests 9 to 12 are Year 4 exam standard with a separate answer sheet. Each is 40 minutes, marked and corrected the same week. Use it alongside Book 3 in the summer term and finish over the holidays, ready for Year 5.
Before, during and after: the routine that turns a test into progress.
About 50 seconds a question. Stuck? Choose your best answer, circle the number, move on, and use the last five minutes on the circled ones. Afterwards, explain every mistake out loud from the working. Two mistakes on the same type means going back to its guide in Books 1–3.
Mixed question types in the GL format, four of each.
Each test works through the parts in order, a new instruction box every four questions, five options A to E. It covers everything from Books 1 to 3, so gaps show up in a score rather than in the exam.
Every answer with the working that gets there.
"J = 10, V = 22; halfway = 16 = P." "e: state, earth, charge, ensure." The working is what makes the after-test routine possible: your child reads it, explains it back, and the same mistake is less likely next week.
All 12 tests in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 4 books in VR Mastery
VR Techniques Foundations
Every question type met once, gently, with vocabulary drawn from English Mastery Vocabulary 1.
VR Codes & Sequences
Letter codes, number codes, alphabet positions and sequences.
VR Word Skills
18 word-based question types: meanings, hidden and compound words, anagrams, ladders and more.
VR Foundations Test Book 2
12 more mixed tests, all new questions, done just before Year 5.