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CEM-style verbal reasoning practice test

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A free verbal reasoning practice paper from CGP Books, linked here from the publisher's own site.

  • Verbal reasoning
  • Multiple choice

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Published by
CGP Books
Paper type
Practice paper
Subjects
Verbal reasoning
Exam board or style
Not stated by the publisher
Format
Multiple choice
Year
Undated by the publisher
Answers
Included in the paper
Hosted by
the publisher (cgpbooks.co.uk)
Cataloguer's note. CGP-authored sample test in CEM style.

Skills classified in this paper

Response items mapped to the pinned Trace Learn skill graph. Multi-skill questions split their weight between tags.

This paper-level analysis needs review

The document reached terminal classification, but the response-item analysis still carries one or more review conditions. Its granular tags are visible as uncertain paper-level evidence and are never used as trend evidence or for rising and falling signals.

  • Taxonomy skill boundary review
  • Ambiguous paper grouping
  • Catalog subject disagreement
Easy questions
32
Medium questions
35
Hard questions
1

Paper-level difficulty counts include every classified response item, including creative-writing prompts. Sitting-year difficulty trends compare objective response items only, so those totals use a different, explicitly labelled denominator.

Published skill tags for CEM-style verbal reasoning practice test
SubjectSkill tagConceptClassificationWithin-subject shareItems carrying tagEasy / medium / hard weighted items
EnglishInfer a character stateReading comprehensionProvisional analysis21.4%3 of 142 / 1 / 0
EnglishInfer implicit meaningReading comprehensionProvisional analysis35.7%5 of 140 / 5 / 0
EnglishInterpret a word in contextReading comprehensionProvisional analysis21.4%3 of 143 / 0 / 0
EnglishRetrieve an explicit detailReading comprehensionProvisional analysis21.4%3 of 143 / 0 / 0
Verbal reasoningComplete a verbal context gapLanguage reasoningProvisional taxonomy37%20 of 5410 / 9 / 1
Verbal reasoningGroup words by relationClassificationProvisional taxonomy18.5%10 of 540 / 10 / 0
Verbal reasoningSelect closest meaningVocabularyProvisional taxonomy25.9%14 of 549 / 5 / 0
Verbal reasoningSelect opposite meaningVocabularyProvisional taxonomy18.5%10 of 545 / 5 / 0

Classification coverage: 100% across 68 classified response items from 68 detected. Ratios describe classified items only, so any uncovered detected items are not silently treated as another skill. This profile is automated and is not represented as independent human review. Confirmed, provisional taxonomy, and provisional analysis labels show which claims can safely contribute to trend evidence.

Subject-based preparation

These links are broad preparation based only on the catalog subject labels: Verbal reasoning. They do not identify skills tested by this paper. An exact skill breakdown requires a published question-level analysis of the paper.

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