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The complete free 11+ skills map: 144 skills and 100 interactive exercises
The 11+ is not four subjects, it is 144 separate skills. 100 interactive exercises cover 142 of them, one page each, playable in the browser right now. The other two are named here too, so the map stays complete. Start with one of the four below.
Free to use and free to share. There is no sign-up, no score, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere.
- named 11+ skills
- 144
- playable exercises
- 100
- subjects covered
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One exercise from each paper
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Maths · Equivalent Fractions
Fraction Slicer
Slice a chocolate bar and watch three quarters and six eighths turn out to be the same bar.
Slice the chocolate bar into 4 equal pieces, then shade 3 of them.
Open Fraction Slicer on its own pageNon-verbal reasoning · Paper Folding
Hole-Punch Unfolder
Fold the sheet, punch a hole through it, then unfold it in your head before you check.
Fold the paper, punch a hole, then predict what the sheet looks like opened out.
Open Hole-Punch Unfolder on its own pageVerbal reasoning · Word building
Letter Wheel
Seven letters, sixty seconds, and one word in there that uses every single one.
You have one minute. Make as many words as you can from these seven letters.
Open Letter Wheel on its own pageEnglish · Homophones
Homophone Highway
Their, there and they are sound identical, so the ear is no help. Drive each gate anyway.
Drive each sentence through the gate that fills the gap.
Open Homophone Highway on its own pageFour of 100. See the whole exercise library.
Start with a subject
Each subject hub breaks the paper down into the strands it is really made of, then into the named skills inside each strand.
Maths
55 named skills, 33 interactive exercises.
Browse maths skillsEnglish
41 named skills, 28 interactive exercises.
Browse english skillsVerbal Reasoning
26 named skills, 21 interactive exercises.
Browse verbal reasoning skillsNon-verbal Reasoning
22 named skills, 18 interactive exercises.
Browse non-verbal reasoning skillsFind the school and entrance route first
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All 144 skills, in one list. 142 of them open onto a page with something to play; the rest are named here so you can see the whole map of the exam rather than only the parts we have built for.
All 144 skills, listed below.
Maths (55)
All maths skills- Evaluate an algebraic expressionAlgebra
- Use a term ruleAlgebra
- Calculate an arithmetic meanData
- Compare bar-chart valuesData
- Compare line-graph changeData
- Compare table valuesData
- Decode a pictogram keyData
- Interpret a pie-chart sectorData
- Read a bar-chart valueData
- Read a line-graph valueData
- Read a table cellData
- Convert decimal and percentageFractions, decimals and percentages
- Convert fraction and decimalFractions, decimals and percentages
- Convert fraction and percentageFractions, decimals and percentages
- Find a fraction of a quantityFractions, decimals and percentages
- Find a percentage of a quantityFractions, decimals and percentages
- Identify a represented fractionFractions, decimals and percentages
- Locate an equivalent valueFractions, decimals and percentages
- Multiply fractionsFractions, decimals and percentages
- Recognise equivalent fractionsFractions, decimals and percentages
- Classify an angleGeometry
- Compose coordinate transformationsGeometry
- Identify a cube netGeometry
- Identify a shape propertyGeometry
- Identify line symmetryGeometry
- Identify a geometric transformationGeometry
- Plot or read a coordinateGeometry
- Preserve measure under a rigid transformationGeometry
- Reflect a coordinateGeometry
- Reflect a shapeGeometry
- Rotate a coordinateGeometry
- Rotate a shapeGeometry
- Solve an angle relationGeometry
- Track cube faces from a netGeometry
- Translate a coordinateGeometry
- Calculate areaMeasure
- Calculate a durationMeasure
- Calculate perimeterMeasure
- Convert unitsMeasure
- Add whole numbers or decimalsNumber
- Calculate a whole-number operationNumber
- Compare and order numbersNumber
- Continue a number sequenceNumber
- Divide whole numbers or decimalsNumber
- Evaluate a mixed expressionNumber
- Find a sequence termNumber
- Multiply whole numbers or decimalsNumber
- Read place valueNumber
- Round to a stated placeNumber
- Scale by a power of tenNumber
- Solve a one-step number problemNumber
- Subtract whole numbers or decimalsNumber
- Solve a multi-step problemProblem
- Scale quantities in a ratioRatio
- Share a total in a ratioRatio
English (41)
All english skills- Classify a word in contextGrammar
- Complete a finite clauseGrammar
- Distinguish contraction and possessionGrammar
- Distinguish a phrase and clauseGrammar
- Maintain consistent tenseGrammar
- Match subject and verbGrammar
- Order sentence elementsGrammar
- Select a clause connectorGrammar
- Select a pronoun formGrammar
- Expand a common abbreviationLanguage
- Identify figurative languageLanguage
- Identify a sound deviceLanguage
- Mark possessionPunctuation
- Mark a sentence boundaryPunctuation
- Use a colonPunctuation
- Punctuate direct addressPunctuation
- Punctuate direct speechPunctuation
- Punctuate a fronted adverbialPunctuation
- Punctuate a listPunctuation
- Punctuate parenthesisPunctuation
- Use capital lettersPunctuation
- Distinguish fact and opinionReading
- Identify a main ideaReading
- Identify textual moodReading
- Identify writer purposeReading
- Identify a themeReading
- Identify writer viewpointReading
- Infer a character stateReading
- Infer implicit meaningReading
- Interpret a word in contextReading
- Retrieve an explicit detailReading
- Sequence passage eventsReading
- Apply a prefix or suffixSpelling
- Form a pluralSpelling
- Resolve an irregular spellingSpelling
- Classify a word relationshipVocabulary
- Resolve a homophoneVocabulary
- Select an antonymVocabulary
- Select a synonymVocabulary
- Organise an argumentWritingNo exercise yet
- Plan for purpose and audienceWritingNo exercise yet
Verbal Reasoning (26)
All verbal reasoning skills- Locate an alphabet positionAlphabet
- Order words alphabeticallyAlphabet
- Identify an analogy relationAnalogy
- Transfer an analogy relationAnalogy
- Group words by relationClassification
- Apply a letter shiftCode
- Apply mirrored alphabet pairingCode
- Apply a number code ruleCode
- Decode a letter-word codeCode
- Follow alternating code rulesCode
- Place words in a constraint gridGrid
- Complete a verbal context gapLanguage
- Complete a letter connectionLogic
- Evaluate stated factsLogic
- Continue a letter or number sequenceSequence
- Select closest meaningVocabulary
- Select opposite meaningVocabulary
- Apply a word transformation ruleWord
- Complete a word with a letterWord
- Find a hidden wordWord
- Follow a word ladderWord
- Form a compound wordWord
- Form a derived wordWord
- Move a letter between wordsWord
- Identify an impossible word formationWord
- Solve an anagram in contextWord
Non-verbal Reasoning (22)
All non-verbal reasoning skills- Track object countAttribute
- Track pointing directionAttribute
- Track fill and line styleAttribute
- Combine visual layersLayer
- Compare visual attributesPattern
- Complete a visual matrixPattern
- Complete a visual seriesPattern
- Complete a visual analogyPattern
- Identify a visual odd one outPattern
- Track order and positionPosition
- Connect shape partsSpatial
- Count cubes in a structureSpatial
- Find an embedded shapeSpatial
- Match a solid and its viewSpatial
- Rotate a 3D solid mentallySpatial
- Track a paper foldSpatial
- Track opposite cube facesSpatial
- Validate a cube netSpatial
- Compose a visual transformation sequenceTransform
- Compose two visual transformationsTransform
- Reflect a visual figureTransform
- Rotate a visual figureTransform
What this resource is, exactly
Playable, not printable
Every exercise here runs in the browser: drag it, slice it, fold it, spin it. No PDF, no worksheet, no login screen in the way.
Named skills, not vague topics
The 11+ is not four subjects, it is a long list of specific skills. 142 of the 144 named here have their own page, with a description and something to practise on it.
Nothing is recorded
No account, no score, no profile. What a child does on these pages is not saved, not sent anywhere and not used for anything.
Free to link and to share
Every skill page and every exercise has a plain, permanent URL, so a tutor can send one activity to a family without sending them anywhere else first.
Prefer to browse by activity?
Every interactive exercise also has its own page and its own link, so a tutor can send a single activity to a family, or a parent can bookmark the one their child needs.
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What the exam is, when it happens, what preparation is worth doing, and what any of this costs.
Most 11+ exams draw on four areas: maths, English, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. Which of the four your child sits, and in what format, is set by the school or the local authority rather than by one national exam, so it is worth checking your target schools before you plan. All four are broken into named skills here: 144 of them, 142 with an exercise you can play.
It is usually sat at the start of Year 6, so most children are 10 when they take it and 11 when they start secondary school. Preparation commonly begins in Year 5, which leaves room for short and regular practice rather than a cram in the last few months.
Short and often beats long and rare. Twenty minutes on one named skill, a few times a week, teaches you more than a full paper at the weekend, because a paper gives you a score and a single skill tells you what to fix. Every exercise here is built to run in a few minutes for that reason.
Verbal reasoning is puzzles made of words and letters: codes, analogies, hidden words, letter sequences. Non-verbal reasoning is the same kind of puzzle made of shapes: rotations, reflections, matrices, folded nets. Neither is an English or a maths paper, and both reward knowing the question types far more than reading or calculating more widely.
Not with a full past paper. Pick one subject, read the strand names, and open two or three skills your child has never been taught by name. Most gaps at this stage are skills nobody has covered yet rather than carelessness. If you would rather have the shortlist done for you, the free diagnostic covers all four subjects and comes back with a topic-by-topic starting point.
Yes, and there is no account to make. All 142 skill pages and all 100 exercises are free to use and free to share. There is no sign-up, no score and no profile, and nothing a child does on these pages is recorded or sent anywhere.
Method
How this map was made
The 11+ has no single syllabus. Different areas use different providers, and the papers vary in timing, question count and content, so there is no official list of skills to copy out. This map is our own breakdown of the exam, built from four sources we can point at.
Maths and English are the firm ground: those skills are anchored to the Department for Education's key stage 2 programmes of study, which is the curriculum a Year 5 or 6 child is already being taught. Verbal and non-verbal reasoning have no statutory curriculum at all, so those skills are pinned to what ISEB and GL Assessment publish about their own papers, and the breakdown into individual skills is a judgement we made and still revise.
Each of the 144 skills is written as one thing a child does in one answer. It carries a plain description and an explicit boundary saying what it excludes, so "infer a character's feeling" cannot quietly absorb the work of "retrieve a stated detail". The skills sit in 29 strands across 4 subjects, and where one skill genuinely depends on another, or is easy to confuse with another, that link is recorded and shown on the page.
Every page on this site is generated from that map, including the 100 exercises and the 142 skill pages you can practise on. A build check re-derives the whole surface from the source and fails if the pages and the map disagree, so this site cannot claim a skill it does not have.
What the map was built from
Department for Education
National curriculum in England: mathematics and English programmes of study
The upper key stage 2 objectives and terminology a Year 5 or 6 child is actually taught. This is what the maths and English skills are anchored to.
Independent Schools Examinations Board
ISEB Pre-Tests: Test Framework
What the published framework says each of the four papers covers, including the reasoning papers that have no national curriculum behind them.
GL Assessment
Free 11+ familiarisation materials
Evidence of which subject areas are examined and which question styles appear. GL also states that local tests vary, which is why nothing here is presented as a fixed syllabus.
Private workbook reference set
11+ workbooks, read for question mechanics only
The shapes questions actually take, and where one skill stops and the next begins. No wording and no image was copied: every exercise and worked example on this site is generated or written from scratch.
Trace Learn is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to GL Assessment, ISEB, the Department for Education, or any school or local authority.
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