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Verbal Reasoning 4 min read · 2025-12-10

Verbal Reasoning: 21 Question Types You'll Face

A quick tour of every Verbal Reasoning question category — so nothing on exam day is a surprise.

Most Verbal Reasoning papers use a fixed set of question types that rotate from year to year. Knowing the catalogue removes most exam-day surprises.

The classics

Synonyms. Antonyms. Analogies. Odd-one-out. Compound words. Hidden words. Letter codes. Number codes. Letter sequences. Word ladders.

The trickier ones

Letter-and-number relationships ("If ABC = 123, then BCD = ?"). Word-pair logic. Compound-word formation. Letter rearrangement. Practice now across all VR types in our Verbal Reasoning bank.

The pattern-spotting ones

Most of the harder VR types reduce to "spot the rule, apply the rule". With enough exposure, the rules become familiar and quick.

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