11+ Preparation
2,485 adaptive practice questions across all 15 verbal reasoning topic types. GL Assessment and CEM aligned. Starts at your child's level and adjusts as they improve.
What is verbal reasoning?
Verbal reasoning tests the ability to think logically using language — identifying patterns in words, understanding relationships between words, and applying rules consistently under time pressure. It appears in both GL Assessment and CEM 11+ papers, but it isn't covered in the national curriculum.
Most children encounter verbal reasoning for the first time during 11+ preparation and find it baffling — not because they lack ability, but because they've never seen anything like it before. The good news: VR is highly learnable. Consistent practice across all 15 question types builds the pattern recognition that makes the exam paper feel familiar, not frightening.
Topic coverage
The 11Plus Tips VR question bank covers every question type tested in UK 11+ papers. 858 questions on letter sequences alone — the most heavily tested type — through to relationship analogies, hidden words, and compound words.
Identify the rule in a series of letter pairs and predict what comes next.
Find the pair of words closest in meaning from two groups.
Find the pair of words most opposite in meaning from two groups.
Decode or encode a word using a cipher rule derived from a given example.
A is to B as C is to ? — identify the relationship and apply it.
Five words — four share a property, one doesn't. Find it.
Find a word concealed spanning the boundary between two given words.
Find a word that can attach to a root word to form a valid compound.
Function, habitat, location, part-whole, and person-product analogies.
How it works
The 11Plus Tips engine tracks mastery per topic — from level 1 (Beginner) to level 5 (Mastered). Every session serves 70% of questions at your child's current level, 20% slightly harder, and 10% slightly easier. As accuracy improves, the level rises automatically.
Year group seeding means no wasting time on questions that are too easy — calibration happens fast.
Hit 80% accuracy across 10 questions and the mastery level rises. The challenge moves with them.
Topics with lower accuracy appear more often. Topics already mastered stay maintained with fewer questions.
Parents and linked tutors see mastery levels per topic every week — no guesswork about where to focus.
Further reading
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