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In these questions, one letter can be moved from the first word to the second word, to make two new words. The letters must not be otherwise arranged and both new words must make sense. Write the two new words in the spaces provided.

1. SCARF & RAIL

Answer: F - Move F from SCARF to RAIL to make SCAR and FRAIL

2. GUILT & POND

Answer: U - Move U from GUILT to POND to make GILT and POUND

3. BLIND & SAY

Answer: L - Move L from BLIND to SAY to make BIND and SLAY

In these questions, the same letter must fit into both sets of brackets, to complete the word in front of the brackets and to start the word after the brackets.

4. THI ( ) ECK STU ( ) OON

Answer: N - to make THIN, NECK and STUN, NOON

5. FOR ( ) ILL PAC ( ) ICK

Answer: K to make FORK, KILL and PACK, KICK

6. SHE ( ) ONE COR ( ) INE

Answer D to make SHED, DONE and CORD, DINE

Three of the four words are given in code. The codes are not written in the same order as the words and one code is missing.

TEAM MALE MAST LEST

6245 5326 1345

Find the codes for the words

7. STEEL

Answer: 45331 (S=4 T=5 E=3 E=3 L=1)

8. TASTE

Answer: 52453 (T=5 A=2 S=4 T=5 E=3)

In each of the following sets of numbers the number in the centre bracket is found in exactly the same way as the two examples. Find the number in the middle.

9. 48 (6) 8 49 (7) 7 63 ( ) 7

Answer: 9 - In each case the first number is divided by the third number to get the number in brackets.

10. 72 (47) 24 28 (18) 9 84 ( ) 33

Answer: 50 - In each case the third number is subtracted from the first number and then 1 is subtracted from the answer to get the number in brackets.

11. 3 (21) 27 6 (25) 37 11 ( ) 23

Answer: 1 - In each case the first number is doubled and the answer is subtracted from the third number to get the number in brackets.

In each question, find the number that continues the series in the most sensible way.

12. 30, 28, 32, 30, 34, _____

Answer: 32 - The sequence moves down 2, then up 4, down 2, up 4 to get to 32

13. 17, 19, 23, 29, 37, _____

Answer: 47 - The sequence goes up 2, then up 4, then up 6, then up 8, then up 10 to get 47

14. 7, 16, 34, 70, ____

Answer: 142 - Double the number and add 2: 7 x 2 = 14 + 2 = 16, 16 x 2 = 32 + 2 = 34, 34 x 2 = 68 + 2 = 70, 70 x 2 = 140 + 2=142

15. 16, 17, 18, 18, 20, 19, ____

Answer: 22 - The correct sequence follows the first, third, fifth, and seventh numbers. They each increase by 2 (16, 18, 20, 22) so the seventh number will be 22. The second, fourth and sixth numbers increase by 1

It should take just under 10 minutes to do at a rate of about 37 seconds per question - as it would be in the real 11 plus test.

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