Year 3 11+ syllabus

Reading closely and pulling out the exact detail the question asks for.

Working out what the writer suggests but never says directly.

Synonyms, antonyms and using context to work out unfamiliar words.

Breaking long words into parts so meaning and spelling both become predictable.

Naming the job each word does in a sentence — the base of every SPaG question.

Capital letters, full stops, commas in lists and punctuating direct speech.

The Year 3 statutory word list plus the homophones that cost easy marks.

Read, write, order and compare three-digit numbers and know what each digit is worth.

Column methods with three digits, including exchanging, plus quick mental strategies.

The Year 3 tables that everything later depends on, learned to instant recall.

Partitioning and the first written methods, including sharing with remainders.

Unit and non-unit fractions, equivalence and finding fractions of quantities.

Measuring accurately, converting simple units and finding the perimeter of shapes.

Naming shapes and their properties, right angles, and horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines.

Reading data carefully — a skill that appears in almost every 11+ maths paper.

The most common 11+ verbal reasoning question type, started early.

Finding the group rule, then the word that breaks it.

Spotting a word hiding across the join of two words.

Using alphabet positions to continue a letter series.

Reading statements carefully and drawing only conclusions the text allows.

Finding the shared feature in a set of figures.

Working out what changes from one box to the next.

'A is to B as C is to ?' and simple grid puzzles.

Telling a turn apart from a mirror image.