Which Books for Non-Verbal Reasoning?
Learning the Method and Technique - January, Year 5
Bonds assessment papers all of the books from third up to further fifth
Bonds How to do Non Verbal Reasoning has good exercise questions in it and a pull-out test that should be used later on.
Starting to Practice - March, Year 5
- Learning Together books, both
- AE Tuition books 1 and 2 need to be covered before the papers start
- Eleven plus swot papers
- If you run out of resources, the Premium Series may be beneficial, although some questions can have more than one answer - in which case, should be ignored/crossed out. (This series is very close to the style used by GL assessment)
Test Practice - 13 weeks left - Mid August
Start practicing the proper tests, alternating between (so child is exposed to different types of paper style) the following packs of practice tests:
AFN Publishing Test Pack
Letts/ GL Assessment Test Papers
Bonds Test Papers
try to only cover 2 tests from each pack in this period - as you want to save some for the mock test days. If you run out of resources try Bonds 10 Minute Tests, Ages 11 - 12,
and the Pull Out Test in How to do Non Verbal Reasoning.
Mock Test Days - 7 weeks left - End of September
The children should be completely ready for the tests and totally familiar with all types and procedures. Start having weekly “test days” exam conditions with a fifteen minute break in between. Alternating between the remaining AFN Papers, Bonds Papers and NFER papers
Final Week - Relax & Take It Easy - November
This week should be left to learn through fun and games. Puzzles, flashcards, quizes, reading. No more tests, Hooray!