Non-verbal Reasoning · free 11+ practice
Non-verbal Reasoning 11+ skills
22 named non-verbal reasoning skills, grouped the way the 11+ actually tests them. Every one of them has an interactive exercise you can open and play right now, with no account and nothing recorded.
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- named non-verbal reasoning skills
- 22
- playable exercises
- 18
- strands in this paper
- 6
- and no sign-up
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Non-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 pageEvery non-verbal reasoning skill, strand by strand
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All 22 skills, listed below.
Attribute (3)
Layer (1)
Pattern (5)
- Compare visual attributesCompare shape, position, angle, number, size, or shading across figures.6 exercises
- Complete a visual matrixCombine row or column rules to select one missing figure.1 exercise
- Complete a visual seriesApply a repeated visual change to select the next figure.1 exercise
- Complete a visual analogyTransfer the visual relationship from one figure pair to complete a second pair.1 exercise
- Identify a visual odd one outSelect the figure that violates the shared visual rule.1 exercise
Position (1)
Spatial (8)
- Connect shape partsIdentify the whole formed when supplied geometric parts join along compatible edges.1 exercise
- Count cubes in a structureInfer the total cubes in a pictured structure, including supported hidden cubes.1 exercise
- Find an embedded shapeLocate a target shape within a more complex figure despite distracting lines.1 exercise
- Match a solid and its viewMatch a 3D arrangement to a specified 2D viewpoint.1 exercise
- Rotate a 3D solid mentallyIdentify a solid after one rigid rotation using visible features.1 exercise
- Track a paper foldPredict the position or pattern produced by a stated paper fold or unfold.1 exercise
- Track opposite cube facesDetermine which marked face becomes opposite after folding.2 exercises
- Validate a cube netDetermine whether a 2D arrangement can fold into a cube.1 exercise
Transform (4)
- Compose a visual transformation sequenceApply three stated rotations or reflections in order.1 exercise
- Compose two visual transformationsApply two stated rotations or reflections in order.1 exercise
- Reflect a visual figureTrack all marked parts through one reflection.4 exercises
- Rotate a visual figureTrack all marked parts through one rotation.1 exercise
Non-verbal Reasoning exercises you can share
Each one has its own page and its own permanent link. Send a single activity to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
- Analogy Bridge
- Block Builder
- The Decoder
- Cube Net Folder
- Dice Partner
- Matrix Machine
- Through the Mirror
- The Club
- The Marker Track
- Hole-Punch Unfolder
- Rotation Dial
- Sequence Scrubber
- Shadow Match
- Shape Spotlight
- Shape Welder
- Solid Rotator
- Symmetry Painter
- View Matcher
Non-verbal Reasoning 11+ questions parents ask
The questions that come up most about this paper, answered plainly. Everything here is on the page and nothing needs an account.
Puzzles made of shapes instead of words: which figure comes next in the series, which is the odd one out, which figure is missing from the grid, what a flat net folds into, and what a shape looks like after a rotation or a reflection. There are 22 named skills here in 6 groups, with 18 interactive exercises.
You can prepare for it, and preparation makes a large difference. The figures only vary in a small number of ways: how many elements there are, where they sit, which way they point, how they are shaded, what the lines look like, and how the whole thing has been turned, flipped or layered. Once a child knows what to check, the questions stop being mysterious.
The same checklist every time, in the same order: how many elements, where they are, which way they point, what the shading and line style are doing, and what has stayed the same. Most wrong answers come from spotting one real change and stopping when the rule was two changes at once. A fixed list is slower for a week and much faster after that.
This is the paper interactive practice helps with most. A folded net or a rotated solid on a printed page has to be imagined and then checked against a mark scheme. Here a child can fold it, turn it and see immediately whether they were right, which builds the mental picture much faster. 18 of those exercises are linked from this page.
Slow usually means checking every option against every feature. The faster habit is to work the rule out from the question figures first and predict the answer before looking at the options, then find the prediction among them. It feels riskier and it is considerably faster.
Every one of the 18 non-verbal reasoning exercises linked from this page runs in the browser, with no account and nothing recorded. Each has its own permanent link, so a tutor can send a single activity to a family without sending them anywhere else first.
Which non-verbal reasoning skills should your child work on?
A free diagnostic across all four subjects turns this list into a shortlist.