Year 4 11+ syllabus

Skim, scan and retrieve information that is stated directly in the text.

Read between the lines and back up every answer with evidence from the text.

Work out unfamiliar words from context and build an 11+ synonym/antonym bank.

Build and decode words using the most common Year 4 prefixes and suffixes.

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and fronted adverbials.

Inverted commas, apostrophes and commas — the marks Year 4 papers test most.

Year 3/4 statutory words, plural rules and the homophones that cost easy marks.

Plan in five minutes, open strongly, show rather than tell, and finish on time.

Read, write, order and round four-digit numbers, and understand what each digit is worth.

Column methods with up to four digits, including exchanging and checking answers.

The single highest-value Year 4 skill: instant recall of all multiplication and division facts.

Short multiplication and short division, plus remainders in real problems.

Tenths and hundredths, equivalent fractions and finding fractions of amounts.

Converting units, perimeter of rectilinear shapes, area by counting squares, money and time.

Classify shapes and angles, find lines of symmetry and plot coordinates.

Read and interpret bar charts, pictograms and tables, then answer comparison questions.

Closest meaning and opposite meaning questions — the most common GL verbal type.

Find the word that doesn't belong, or the two words that go together best.

Words hidden inside or across other words, and words made by joining two others.

Crack codes by tracking how far each letter has moved through the alphabet.

Continue sequences of letters and numbers by spotting the step pattern.

Sort information carefully and work out what must be true.

The six-point scan — shape, size, shading, position, count and line style.

Find the shared rule in a group, then the figure that breaks it.

A is to B as C is to ?, plus 2×2 and 3×3 grid completion.

Continue a visual pattern by tracking what changes at each step.

Tell turns from mirror images — the classic trap in spatial questions.

Fold nets in your head and work out which faces end up opposite each other.