At this time of the year many parents will have received 11+ results for their children. We have been working with some 11+ tutoring companies and have some advice for parents. Working with tutoring companies we have seen that some educational toys can improve non-verbal reasoning results particularly visual spatial reasoning skills. We found that Pentago Mechanic, Shape by Shape and Katamino are very good at doing this.

Visual spatial skills are best improved through hands on play with games like those above rather than teaching. So our advice for parents looking to improve chances of 11+ success is to play visual spatial games as soon as possible.