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Tag Archives: verbal reasoning
Year 5 Entrance Exam Verbal Reasoning Masterclass: Core Skills (A)
Verbal Reasoning Masterclass A for entrance exam students: Core Skills Can you produce an answer for all the following questions in under sixty seconds in total? Answers at the bottom of the page. 1) Find the opposites: conquer s expand … Continue reading
Advent Calendar Day 19: When Christmas Came Early (Verbal Reasoning)
On the 19th day of Better Tuition’s winter activity advent calendar, we have a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge. Verbal Reasoning can really help attune the brain to paying attention to detail. In particular you will want to hone your verbal reasoning skills if you … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, Christmas, hidden words, type E, verbal reasoning
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Advent Activity Calendar – Day Ten: Verbal Reasoning Cloze
Welcome to Day Ten of our Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a Verbal Reasoning Cloze activity for you. Choose the best word to fill in the gaps. Cloze activities enhance and assess vocabulary and comprehension. They also feature in … Continue reading
Posted in Advent Calendar, Entrance Exams, Verbal Reasoning
Tagged cloze, cloze procedure, verbal reasoning, winter
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Free and Low-Cost Downloads from Better Tuition
We have recently updated our download store so that it’s even more straightforward to use. If you haven’t visited it yet, do take a look: you will find FREE practice entrance exam/ 11 plus papers, covering maths, English, verbal and … Continue reading
Advent Calendar: 5th December – Santa’s Verbal Reasoning Challenge
Santa loves our Better Tuition advent calendar so much he has created a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge for all those year five students who are busily preparing for Trafford’s Entrance Exams and for anyone who enjoys a good logic puzzle. Each Christmas Eve, Santa’s elves must prepare the reindeer for the night to … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, entrance exams, logic, santa, verbal reasoning
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Advent Calendar: 4th December – Verbal Reasoning Shuffled Sentences
It’s day 4 of our Advent calendar and we have a verbal reasoning challenge for you. At Better Tuition, Urmston, we have been trying to read this weather forecast but each sentence has been shuffled. What’s more, an extra word … Continue reading
22nd December: Santa’s Verbal Reasoning Challenge
Santa loves our Better Tuition advent calendar so much he has created a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge for all those year five students who are busily preparing for Trafford’s Entrance Exams. Each Christmas Eve, Santa’s elves must prepare the reindeer for the night … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, entrance exams, puzzle, verbal reasoning
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Entrance exams: what you need to know (part 3 of an occasional series)
Verbal Reasoning (VR) is a key component in all of Trafford’s state grammar school entrance examinations, bar one (Urmston Grammar). VR tests understanding, and ability to reason through words. Question types include: 1. Identifying opposites, e.g. Choose the word which is most … Continue reading
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Tagged entrance exams, FREE assessment, verbal reasoning
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Entrance Exams: what do I need to know? Part 1 of 3
This post aims to give an overview of Trafford’s entrance exam system and give an idea of what you should be doing now if you are the parent of a Year 5 child. There are seven grammar schools in Trafford: … Continue reading