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Verbal Reasoning 3 min read · 2025-12-21

Spotting Odd-One-Out: The Patterns Examiners Use

Odd-one-out is easy when you know what categories examiners reach for. Here are the most common ones.

Odd-one-out questions test category recognition. Examiners reach for the same families of categories again and again — knowing them speeds your child up.

Categories to expect

Practice now on odd-one-out questions to spot the families.

The harder variant

Some are abstract — odd by phonetic pattern, odd by syllable count, odd by being the only word with a silent letter. If the obvious category doesn't fit, look at the words themselves, not just their meanings.

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