Kent Test

Reading Comprehension

• Retrieving key information from fiction and non-fiction passages
• Making inferences and drawing conclusions from text
• Identifying the main idea and summarising passages
• Understanding the author's purpose and viewpoint
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion

Vocabulary & Word Knowledge

• Synonyms (words with similar meanings) and antonyms (opposites)
• Homonyms, homophones and homographs
• Understanding word meaning from context clues
• Prefixes, suffixes and root words (e.g. un-, re-, -tion, -ment)
• Figurative language: similes, metaphors, personification, idioms

Grammar & Sentence Structure

• Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions
• Subject-verb agreement and tense consistency
• Sentence types: simple, compound, complex
• Active and passive voice
• Clauses (main and subordinate) and phrases

Punctuation & Spelling

• Full stops, commas, question marks, exclamation marks
• Apostrophes for possession and contraction
• Speech marks and direct/indirect speech
• Colons, semicolons and hyphens
• Common spelling rules (i before e, doubling consonants, -ible/-able)

Number & Place Value

• Reading, writing and ordering numbers to 10 million
• Negative numbers in context (temperature, number lines)
• Rounding to nearest 10, 100, 1000 and to decimal places
• Roman numerals (I to M)
• Prime numbers, factors and multiples

Arithmetic & Operations

• Long multiplication (up to 4-digit by 2-digit)
• Long and short division including remainders
• BODMAS / order of operations
• Mental maths strategies (partitioning, compensating, doubling/halving)
• Inverse operations to check answers

Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

• Equivalent fractions, simplifying, comparing and ordering
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions
• Mixed numbers and improper fractions
• Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages
• Finding percentages of amounts (10%, 25%, 50%, 1%)

Algebra & Sequences

• Recognising and continuing number sequences
• Finding the nth term and describing rules
• Simple algebraic expressions and formulae
• Solving one-step and two-step equations
• Using letters to represent unknowns

Geometry, Measurement & Data

• Area and perimeter of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms and compound shapes
• Volume of cubes and cuboids
• Angles (measuring, calculating missing angles, angles in triangles and on a straight line)
• Symmetry (reflective and rotational), translation and coordinates
• Reading and interpreting bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, tables and timetables

Verbal Reasoning

• Letter-number codes and cipher solving
• Word analogies (A is to B as C is to ?)
• Odd one out from word groups
• Hidden words within sentences
• Compound words, anagrams and word completion
• Logical deduction from statements (if/then reasoning)

Non-Verbal Reasoning

• Pattern sequences (identifying the next shape in a series)
• Shape analogies (applying transformations from one pair to another)
• Matrices (finding the missing shape in a grid)
• Odd one out (identifying the shape that doesn't belong)
• Reflection, rotation and symmetry of shapes
• Spatial folding (predicting what a flat net looks like when folded)

Problem Solving & Logic

• Number-based logic puzzles
• Position and direction problems
• Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams
• Following and creating sets of rules
• Identifying patterns in tables and grids