11+ topic guides
Each guide explains what is tested, walks through a worked example, gives a checklist to use in the exam, lists the mistakes that lose marks, and finishes with sample questions.
Maths
- Ratio and proportion
- Percentages, fractions and decimals
- Algebra: equations and sequences
- Probability
- Arithmetic
- Number and place value
- Fractions
- Decimals
- Proportion
- Number sequences
- Geometry: angles and shapes
- Measurement
- Time
- Money
- Averages
- Data handling
- Multi-step problems
- Worded problems
- 3D shapes: volume and surface area
- Coordinates and translations
- Speed, distance and time
- Venn and Carroll diagrams
English
- English: inference and comprehension
- English: grammar
- English: spelling
- English: punctuation
- English: vocabulary
- English: editing and proofreading
- English: comprehension
- English: comparing two texts
- English: paragraph ordering and cohesion
- English: register and purpose
- English: deduction
- English: sentence completion
- English: context
- English: word relationships
- English: literary understanding
- English: creative writing
- Shuffled sentences
- Clauses: main, subordinate and relative
Verbal Reasoning
- Verbal reasoning: codes
- Verbal reasoning: logic and ordering
- Verbal reasoning: analogies
- Verbal reasoning: classification
- Verbal reasoning: letter and word sequences
- Verbal reasoning: word relationships
- Verbal reasoning: hidden words
- Verbal reasoning: compound words
- Verbal reasoning: letter patterns
- Move a letter
- Insert a letter
- Anagrams and word ladders
- Letter and symbol sums
Non-Verbal Reasoning
- Non-verbal reasoning: sequences and matrices
- Non-verbal reasoning: transformations
- Non-verbal reasoning: rotations
- Non-verbal reasoning: reflections
- Non-verbal reasoning: symmetry
- Non-verbal reasoning: spatial reasoning
- Non-verbal reasoning: analogies
- Non-verbal reasoning: paper folding
- Non-verbal reasoning: cube nets
- Non-verbal reasoning: odd one out
- Plans and elevations (3D views)
- Shape assembly
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