The 11+

[skipper734]

I know I am tired just come in from work, I am old and failed my 11 Plus. But I am sure some of the questions do not make sense. 6/15 I will try it on my twelve year old tomorrow, who does go to grammar school, to see how he gets on.

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

14 (incl. 1 correct guess)

 

[Wardy]

15/15. Agree the last question took me awhile to work out.

 

[Robdinho]

14/15 - didn't get the last one

 

[Barrel of Fun]

15/15 - The last one took a while to crack though..!

 

[footychick]

I got 8 correct.
Not great.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

15/15 in 5 mins 31 secs

 

[Clothes Peg]

14/15 Ran out of time for the last one. Considering I hate maths, I'm happy with that.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Top of the class!
You've scored 15 out of 15.

 

[Hiney]

15/15

 

[Giraffe]

11/15 tired!

 

[Spider]

14/15 - that last one got me!

 

[Bad Ash]

14/15 - the last one is shockingly hard.

Huh, that last one followed a very similar pattern to number 12 in that the alternate numbers had simple increasing/decreasing patterns.

Edit: Having read the solution I see there was another way to look at number 12, I saw the odd numbers increasing by 2 starting from 30 and the evens increasing by 2 starting from 28, which then made question15 seem much easier. I guess I've seen too many tests like this.

 

[Woodingdean Gull]

Top of the class!
You've scored 15 out of 15.

Sort of questions you used to find in a computer programming aptitude test.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

14/15 - that last one got me!

The odd thing about Q15 is that the answer would have been the same with all sorts of alternative sequences.


The question was:-

16, 17, 18, 18, 20, 19, ____


It would have made no difference if the question had been:-

16, 76, 18, 73, 20, 70, ____

 

[sten_super]

14/15. Completely misunderstood the first 3 questions, but still managed to get 2/3 right! 15 was obvious after about 30 seconds, but then I do have the advantage of having done the test about 11 years ago, and having a job that requires that kind of logical thinking.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I've always liked this one:-

O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, ____ , ____ ?

 

[fatbadger]

...N, T.

15/15 for me, too. Again, like others, I passed the real 11+ more years ago than I care to think about. It's nice to know my brain hasn't gone to mush since!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Excellent work, fatbadger.

Not ... E, R (which is the answer that some folk come up with).

 

[bhaexpress]

15/15 (and I failed the 11+).