Year 5 11+ syllabus

Skim, scan and answer retrieval questions accurately on longer, harder passages.

Work out what a writer implies about character, mood and motive from the evidence.

Spot simile, metaphor, personification and alliteration — and explain the effect they create.

The higher-tier synonyms, antonyms and root words that separate the top scorers.

Main and subordinate clauses, relative clauses and the active and passive voice.

Commas for clarity, plus semi-colons, colons, brackets and dashes used accurately.

Tricky Year 5/6 word list spellings, suffix rules and the homophones examiners test.

Plan and write a strong story or argument within a 25-minute exam window.

Numbers to a million, negative numbers and decimals to three places — read, order and round with confidence.

Formal written methods for four-digit calculations, including remainders expressed sensibly.

Prime numbers, factor pairs, squares and cubes — the number facts 11+ papers love.

Convert freely between the three forms and calculate with them under time pressure.

Share amounts in a ratio, scale recipes and solve the classic 'best value' questions.

Find rules for sequences, use letters for unknowns and solve missing-number problems.

Convert metric units and calculate perimeter, area and volume of common shapes.

Angle rules on a line, around a point and in triangles, plus coordinates and symmetry.

Read line graphs and timetables and calculate the mean — a frequent 11+ question.

Closest and opposite meanings, plus the two-word answer types used in GL papers.

Shift codes and coded words solved reliably with an alphabet line.

Number sequences, letter-number pairs and the algebra-style VR question types.

Words hidden across word boundaries, missing letters and compound word building.

Multi-clue logic puzzles, true statements and position problems solved with a grid.

Harder 3×3 matrices where two or three features change at once.

Sequences where rotation, shading and count all progress together.

Distinguish turns from mirror images, including diagonal mirror lines.

Fold nets mentally, count hidden cubes and match 3D solids to their plans.