Use these Bond Placement Tests to establish your child's strengths and weaknesses in English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. Bond Maths Assessment Papers for 5-6 years are topic-based practice questions that set the foundation for success in SATs; common entrance or 11+ exams. They have been written to cover the core National Curriculum skills and cover the question types used in 11+ exams; building the skills and confidence for exam success.

Please feel free to use the tests provided below and also to look at each publisher’s offering in our publisher section. Alternatively all of these publishers have books and papers specifically recommended by us in our guide sections. Free 11 Plus Non-Verbal Reasoning ExamPapers – CEM

This leaflet answers key questions such as ‘What is the 11+?’, ‘How do I know how well my child is doing?’, and ‘What can I do to help my child pass?’. Non-verbal reasoning is tested because it shows a variety of skills that are not limited by words and language. These tests can be especially useful for children who find it difficult to talk or communicate verbally, children with English as a second language, and children who are dyslexic. It is also believed that they show a child’s general intelligence and ability without being dependent on maths or English skills.

Where Independent Schools have Non-verbal Reasoning tests then these free papers will be as good an as example as any for the type of questions pupils will face. No independent school to our knowledge designs their own Non-Verbal Reasoning papers and most buy them in from test providers such as GL or CEM. Wider preparation beyond just using exam papers Non-verbal reasoning/spatial awareness is not part of the National Curriculum in state primary schools, and this style of assessment may feel quite strange for children who have not seen questions framed in this way before. This is why practising these kinds of questions at home is so important: it helps familiarise children with a style of testing that they won’t experience at school.

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The scope and content of an 11+ verbal reasoning exam differs from region to region as there are a wide range of question types that can be included. However, the tests will usually require children to: