Click to enlargeVR Codes & Numbers
The code and number types at full exam difficulty.
- 10 code and number question types at exam difficulty, one a week
- A technique guide for every type, with worked examples
- 60 laddered questions per type
- Two 50-question mixed tests with answer sheets
- Answer key with working, a progress chart and a 12-week plan
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How this book is used in our course
The book runs on a 12-week plan. Each week introduces one question type: read its technique guide and worked examples, then work through the laddered sets, marking as you go. Weeks 11 and 12 are two timed mixed tests. Scores go on the progress chart. Any type scoring under 90% is repeated before the next week begins, using the working in the answer key to find the exact step that went wrong.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 6, VR Test Book
- Next book in the series: Book 8, VR Vocabulary & Logic
What's inside VR Mastery 7
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 10 sample pages are in the viewer.
The ten code and number types at full exam difficulty, one a week.
Guide and examples on day one, then fifteen questions a day, marking as you go: 60 questions per type. Weeks 11 and 12 are two 50-question mixed tests with a separate answer sheet. The types children find most mechanical become the marks they can bank.
Find the rule, then run it backwards.
If the code moved letters forward 3, move the code letters back 3. Decode every letter and check you have a real word. The guide names both traps: applying the rule forwards again, and choosing a real word that is one letter different from the answer.
Work out the left side, then undo the right.
The left-hand side is a fixed number. Undo the operation to find the missing number, then put it back in to check. The most common lost mark is choosing the left-hand value itself as the answer, so the guide warns about it first.
50 questions, 40 minutes, a separate answer sheet.
Five questions of each type, marked on an answer sheet exactly as in the real exam. Skip and come back if stuck. Then Test B in Week 12 shows what the review fixed.
All 10 question types in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 5 books in VR Mastery
VR Test Book
Timed mixed tests across every question type at Year 5 standard.
VR Vocabulary & Logic
The vocabulary and logic types most children find hardest.
VR Exam Papers
Eight full GL-style papers of 80 questions, each with its own answer sheet.
VR Exam Papers 2
Eight more full papers of 80 questions, each with the new Word Grid section.