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Reasoning Guides

Complete question-type taxonomies for verbal and non-verbal reasoning, with worked examples, board-specific formats and free auto-marked reasoning practice.

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Non-Verbal Reasoning: Every Question Type with Worked Examples

A complete taxonomy of 11+ non-verbal reasoning question types, each with a worked example, a repeatable solving rule and the distractor examiners plant. Includes official ISEB and GL exam facts.

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Verbal Reasoning: All the Question Types and How to Solve Them

The 21 verbal reasoning question types every 11+ family is told to learn, sourced against what the exam boards actually publish, with an original worked example for each and per-type time budgets taken from a real 25-minute paper.

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The free diagnostic covers Maths, English, verbal reasoning, and non-verbal reasoning. No card is required.