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11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning activities
Sequences, rotations, reflections, odd-one-out and missing-shape puzzles — practised with clear, uncluttered diagrams.
5activities
20questions with explanations
4, 5, 6school years
What Non-Verbal Reasoning practice covers here
- Repeating patterns
- Shading patterns
- Turns of 45° and 90°
- Clockwise and anticlockwise
- Turns of 90° and 180°
- Visualising rotation
- Vertical mirror lines
- Horizontal mirror lines
- Flip versus turn
- Properties of shapes
- Counting sides
- Same shape in different positions
- Grid rules
- Rules across rows and columns
- Combining two rules
All Non-Verbal Reasoning activities
Shape Sequences
Continue a pattern of shapes, shades and turns — the gentlest introduction to non-verbal reasoning.
Rotation
Turn a shape by a given number of degrees, clockwise or anticlockwise, and pick the matching picture.
Reflection
Mirror a shape in a vertical or horizontal line — the mirror image is flipped, never simply turned.
Odd One Out: Shapes
Three of the shapes share a property — same shape, same number of sides — and one does not.
Missing Shape Puzzles
Work out the rule across a grid of shapes, then supply the missing one — the classic 11+ "complete the pattern" question.