It must be some sort of horribly expressed number sequence with equals signs instead of commas…

Well apart from recognising that 668/8 = 86 and has nothing to do with either verbal reasoning, or 25, *, or 5, what is there to miss? The answer is clearly “wrong”.

How is that a “verbal reasoning” test?

If there are two words I think completely fail to relate to that question, they’re “verbal” and “reasoning”.

Have you accidentally obtained a copy of the Numerical Bollocks paper?

how is that verbal reasoning it involves numbers and symbols and most importantly no WORDS.

Ther’s a couple of ways of looking at it:

The easiest is that the second number can be dived or multiplied by the first and the result is a whole number. 2 and 1 are the only ones suggested that do.

When you do the sums given as examples you get a result that contains one or more of the original figures, 2 multipled or divided by 1 gives 2, which is one of the original figures.

Definitely go and discuss, do not send them a letter it’ll be a waste of time.

Can we have some of the other questions?

I think if it’s verbal reasoning, we should be reasoning verbally….

Did you read my answer, Rockhopper? I identified the common factor, multiples or dvisions with the same numbers in the answer, before you posted the four choices. 100 / 10 and 100 x 10 for example . However, as there is an infinite number of answers that fit the conditions the question only made sense when you revealed the limited multiple choice responses.

Having googled ‘verbal reasoning’ and looked at their mathematical examples, it seems the most likely explanation. Either she’s misremembering / misread it, or the question was set incorrectly.

Or, the verbal reasoning you’re expected to apply is “this is nonsense” (-:

My computer is slow as hell this morning so I tried again whilst watching it trying to compile stuff.

Followed my thoughts from yesterday about digits being codes for letters, but after various juggling and shifting of those combinations, I can’t find anthing that makes any sense.

Ended up googling in frustration.

This page supposedly lists the question types for 11+ Verbal Reasoning. None of them match the format you have up there (a couple are close, but still very distinctly different) so I’m still wondering whether it’s been remembered accurately.

http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/advice/verbal-reasoning/gl-assessment-question-types-at-a-glance

If anyone here works in eductaion and can explain to the class how in the name of Satan question types 11, 17 or 18 are “verbal reasoning” then I’m sure we’ll all sit cross-legged in silence and listen to that one.