Accurately assess your students’ verbal reasoning skills.
Our verbal reasoning assessments provide you with reliable insights into how students perform with language-based reasoning, from Years 2 to 11.
Our testing programs that include verbal reasoning
Verbal reasoning questions are part of our general reasoning tests, carried out within our broader testing programs.
These programs are unique and designed with specific purposes:
Understand how your students are developing their verbal reasoning abilities, and place them in appropriate learning groups.
Identify students with strong language-based reasoning skills who may be well-suited to your scholarship program.
Recognise verbally gifted students who would thrive in your enrichment and extension programs.
What our verbal reasoning assessments measure
Our verbal reasoning tests evaluate students’ capacity for language-based thinking, exploring how they interpret words, recognise patterns and apply logical reasoning.
Our assessed verbal reasoning domains include:
Vocabulary
Verbal comprehension
Associations
Connections
Verbal reasoning performance reports to inform your teaching
Compare student performance against your school
Analyse and compare scaled verbal reasoning scores for students against your school’s cohort, to better understand their performance.
Examine individual test results
Dive into each student’s specific normative test results for verbal reasoning, the range of difficulty, how they performed and how they compare for other types of reasoning.
Evaluate your school’s performance
Discover how each year level performed in verbal reasoning, compared against the normal population of students.
Assess year-on-year performance
Compare broader general reasoning performance across your school’s year levels, including against the normal population of students.
Verbal reasoning questions to pinpoint students’ needs
Our tailored verbal reasoning questions allow you to accurately assess students’ skills, identify their learning gaps, and tailor your instruction.
Verbal reasoning test practice available
Looking for verbal reasoning test practice? Our scholarship practice tests assess these skills, foundational topics like writing and mathematics, and more.
What our verbal reasoning assessments look like
Our verbal reasoning assessments are included in our broader general reasoning tests, which consist of multiple-choice questions and typically take 40 to 50 minutes to complete.
Tests can be delivered online (using the same platform as NAPLAN) or on paper.
Verbal reasoning assessments created and delivered by experts
Our verbal reasoning tests are developed by experienced Australian educators who can handle the entire exam process on your behalf.
From setup and delivery to marking and results analysis, we can take care of it all.
All subjects and skills we assess
Test students’ core writing skills, including their vocabulary, punctuation, structure and more.
Assess students’ ability to read bodies of text, which they’ll analyse, evaluate and use other important reading skills.
Gauge students’ spelling skills with words that vary widely in difficulty, based on year level.
Assess students’ aptitude for language-based reasoning and their ability to work with words and meaning.
Frequently asked questions
Pricing for our verbal reasoning tests depends on volume and the services you require.
Please contact us to discuss your needs.
We don't typically offer standalone verbal reasoning tests. Our verbal reasoning assessments are included as part of broader testing programs that also cover literacy, numeracy and other reasoning skills.
These programs include:
- Progress and placement testing – monitoring student growth and development over time
- Scholarship testing – identifying high-achieving students for scholarship consideration
- Gifted student ability measure – discovering gifted learners for enrichment programs
If these programs don't quite fit your needs, we're happy to explore a custom solution. Get in touch to discuss your requirements.
Each verbal reasoning test runs for approximately 40–50 minutes, depending on year level.
Testing is conducted across two sessions, with a 20-minute break in between.
We can schedule testing on dates that work best for your school.
Results are scored, validated and reported within 10 working days. Reports are available electronically through our reporting system, with hard copies available on request.
Our verbal reasoning tests are strictly confidential and cannot be purchased separately. We also frequently update our assessments, so it's highly unlikely students will have encountered the questions before.
Our verbal reasoning tests are scaled to align with NAPLAN, allowing you to import NAPLAN data and track consistent year-on-year progress.
Start understanding your students' verbal reasoning abilities today
Get in touch to explore how our verbal reasoning assessments can help you gain deeper insights into your students’ language-based reasoning skills.