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Everything your child learns in 11+ Preparation English.

This is the real curriculum data behind the Learn tab — not a marketing summary. 8 of 8 topics below are live online: click any of them to open the lesson.

🧩 Word Skills

The core verbal reasoning question types built entirely around words.

  • Word relationships and analogies
    Skills: Completing 'A is to B as C is to __' analogies, Identifying the relationship between a pair of words, Applying a spotted relationship to a new pair
  • Odd one out
    Skills: Finding the word that doesn't share the group's property, Explaining precisely why a word doesn't belong, Spotting more than one possible grouping and choosing the best one
  • Synonyms and antonyms under pressure
    Skills: Selecting a precise synonym at speed, Selecting a precise antonym at speed, Avoiding near-miss trap answers
  • Compound words and hidden words
    Skills: Building compound words from two word parts, Finding a smaller word hidden inside a longer word, Finding a word hidden across the join of two words

🔐 Codes and Logic

Decoding skills: letter codes, sequences and precise, literal instruction-following.

  • Letter codes
    Skills: Cracking a simple letter-shift code, Working out the rule from a worked example, Applying a cracked code to a new word
  • Word and letter sequences
    Skills: Spotting the pattern in a letter sequence, Finding the missing term in a sequence, Explaining the rule governing a sequence
  • Cloze and missing words
    Skills: Selecting the word that fits both meaning and grammar, Ruling out options that fit only one of the two, Using the rest of the sentence as evidence
  • Following precise instructions
    Skills: Executing a multi-step instruction exactly as written, Spotting when an instruction has been misread, Working carefully under timed conditions

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