Passing verbal reasoning tests

The general advice given is typical that some focussed test practice will improve your score. Unfortunately, there aren’t any quick wins for being good at Maths.

• Give your “first response”.
• As a timed test, you need to average around one minute per question. Work briskly but accurately.
• Each question counts the same so pick off the easy ones first and don’t waste your test time on the most difficult questions.
• Practise some of the most common numerical test types at the main test publisher websites. For this reason alone, we strongly advise practising sample questions from Kenexa-IBM, TalentQ and SHL sites. ensure that you are comfortable using data tables, interpreting graphs and manipulating large financial figures.

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Step-by-step Chukra 11 plus verbal reasoning guide

1. Assessing Your Child’s Current 11 plus verbal reasoning skill level is vital. Otherwise you cannot track their progress along the way. In other words, you should assess your child’s English skills. Those literacy skills covered by Key Stage 2 in school.
2. Master the different 11 plus verbal reasoning question types.

• Certain types of 11 plus exam have separate verbal reasoning and 11 plus English papers. Whilst the CEM 11 plus exam’s verbal reasoning paper covers a full range of a child’s literacy skills: readingcomprehension, vocab, punctuation and spelling.

3. Only start using Chukra 11 plus verbal reasonign papers once your child fully understands the different types of verbal reasoning question.

Chukra 11 Plus verbal reasoning

• Whilst other 11 plus exam paper publishers, such as the GL Assessment 11 plus exam’s verbal reasoning paper, has code breaking / letter sequence question format. Plus, their 11 plus format’s core maths questions within the same 11 plus verbal reasoning exam.
• The CEM 11 plus exam format tests English vocab, word recognition and English understanding.

Of course, these region-specific 11 plus formats also can change. HEnce it’s worth checking the 11 plus test publisher sites:

• GL Assessment 11 plus Guide
• CEM 11 plus Guide
• Essex 11 plus Guide

Chukra 11 plus verbal reasoning

Verbal Reasoning Sample Questions

Instructions – Read the passage. To each question, answer TRUE, FALSE or CANNOT TELL using only the information given in the passage.

Verbal Reasoning Example Questions Passage I

Whereas invertebrates have an external exoskeleton, vertebrates have an internal endoskeleton. The human endoskeleton is comprised of cartilage and the body’s 206 bones. These are connected to each other by ligaments. It protects and supports the body’s internal organs. Also, the human endoskeleton also works in conjunction with muscles, joints and nervous system to enable movement.

Joints occur between bones, making the skeleton flexible by acting as hinges or pivots. Tendons attach muscles to bones and contract in response to a stimulus from the body’s nervous system. Those muscles that are under conscious control, the skeletal muscles, act by pulling against the bones of the skeleton.

• Physical activity requires the muscles and bones to synchronise.

Firstly, True. See 3rd sentence.

• The human endoskeleton provides connection points for the body’s muscles.

Secondly, True. T

• The human skeleton is comprised mainly of bone.

Thirdly, CT.

• Unlike invertebrates, humans have an internal exoskeleton.

Finally, False. Humans have an internal endoskeleton as specified in the first and second sentences.

Verbal Reasoning Test Passage II

Copernicus’ sixteenth century model of the solar system has the Earth and associated planets revolving around the Sun. Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory was the first heliocentric model of planetary motion, placing the sun at the centre. That said, his solar model retained the erroneous premise – as per the Ptolemaic System – that planets move in perfect circles.

There was a complete change in people’s concept of the universe because of the move away from the geocentric view. The Copernican model of the solar system laid the groundwork for Newton’s laws of gravity and Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. It describes how each planet stays in orbit.

• The passage suggests that the Copernician system was flawless.

Firstly, False. The Copernician system retained the erroneous premise that planets move in perfect circles.

• Copernicus developed the first geocentric model of the Earth’s solar system.

Secondly, False. The model was heliocentric.

• C paved the way for Newton’s work on the orbits of the planets.

Thirdly, True. See the last two sentences.

• The Ptolemaic system preceded the Copernican model.

Finally, True. See 3^rd sentence.

11 Plus verbal reasoning practice papers from ISEB’s Galore Park

Galore Park, the ISEB publishers, also offer a comprehensive range of verbal reasoning revision papers ;

Verbal Reasoning – Sample Test questions; and Verbal Reasoning Sample Test Solutions.

Ask ROB (expert test developer) your questions by emailing passedpapers@gmail.com

An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Rob Williams is a Chartered Psychologist with over 25 years of experience working and designing tests.
Rob has worked for the school entrance test publishers ISEB and GL – as well as the leading global psychometric test publishers including SHL, Kenexa IBM, MBTI, CAPP and SOVA Assessment.