Verbal Reasoning for the GL 11+

Who it is for

Who this book is for

For a child in Year 4 or Year 5 sitting a GL Assessment 11+, and the parent helping at the kitchen table. Verbal Reasoning is usually the paper families have never seen before: twenty-three question types, each with its own trick, and the schools do not teach it. This book teaches the trick for each one, then makes the child practise it under the clock.

How every chapter works

• What it looks like. The question as the paper prints it, and an example.
• The method. Five steps, written to be said aloud.
• Worked example. Step by step, and why each wrong option is there.
• The three traps. How the question is usually lost, and what to do instead.
• Try it. Ten questions, easier first, exam level from question 4, with working space.

What is inside

The 23 chapters

1. 1Insert a letter
2. 2Hidden words
3. 3Move a letter
4. 4Take a letter away
5. 5The missing three-letter word
6. 6Compound words
7. 7The word in the brackets
8. 8The third pair
9. 9Two odd ones out
10. 10Closest in meaning
11. 11Opposite in meaning
12. 12The double meaning
13. 13Position in the alphabet
14. 14Letter series
15. 15Letter sentences
16. 16Word codes
17. 17Number codes
18. 18Number series
19. 19Related numbers
20. 20The missing number in brackets
21. 21Complete the sum
22. 22Letters for numbers
23. 23Work it out from the facts

Then the timed test, every answer with its reason, a glossary and a progress page.