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10 timed practice papers (60 questions, 30 minutes) matching the EduTest Verbal Reasoning format used for Year 9 entry and scholarship testing.
Five options A–E on every question, a hard vocabulary band, and the formal-logic strand most prep material leaves out.
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What Verbal Reasoning tests
- Vocabulary — synonyms, antonyms and fine shades of meaning
- Word relationships and analogies
- Category boundaries — which word belongs and which does not
- Formal logic and deduction from given statements
- Coding and constructed-language decoding
- Ordering and constraint puzzles
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3 difficulty levels
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Question types you'll encounter
Our practice papers cover every question type in the verbal reasoning section of selective entry and scholarship exams.
Synonyms and Antonyms
Choose the closest or most opposite word, discriminating between near-synonyms that differ only in register or connotation.
Analogies
Identify the relationship in one pair and apply it to another — part-to-whole, cause-effect, worker-to-tool, or degree of intensity.
Box Items
Four related words are given; decide which word could also belong, or which could not. Tests the boundary of a category, not loose association.
Logical Deduction
Statements about invented categories ("all mils are hils") from which exactly one conclusion follows necessarily.
Two-Statement Proofs
Five numbered statements are given; find the pair that together proves the conclusion, avoiding the pairs that only half-prove it.
Coding and Ordering
Decode an invented language from overlapping phrases, or work out an order from relational clues.
Preparation tips for verbal reasoning
- 1
You lose no marks for a wrong answer, so never leave a question blank.
- 2
On synonym questions, read all five options before choosing — two are often close and only one is exact.
- 3
For "all" and "some" statements, remember that "some A are B" never lets you conclude "all B are A".
- 4
On box items, work out the rule that covers all four given words before looking at the options.
- 5
It is normal not to finish. Move on quickly rather than losing two minutes on one puzzle.
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