11+VR question am I being really dim?

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…or is this question arrant nonsense?

Quite willing to believe it’s the former but for the life of me I cannot see an answer!

Roust and Stable, by moving the B? Is roust even a word?!

Roust and stable - roust is a very unusual word though

Yes it's roust and stable

Move the B to make roust and stable

Move to the B for Roust and Stable?

It’s roust and stable. Not sure how the hell they expect a ten year old to know the word roust. Obviously there will be some that do. Does make a child a better secondary pupil?

It can only be C. You don’t need to know what roust means just that logically it is a word given that rbust and obust can’t be

Yeh as others say. Roust everyone out of bed. That's about the only use I can think of. Agree a 10yo would not know it and actually ROBUS could be a word and so could STALET. But STABLE is a word you would know. I didn't see the possible answers at first but still thought it was B.

I mean ofc I thought the letter that needed to move was B! Tbh using letters to indicate the answers is less than helpful in the circs. 1) R; 2) O would be clearer but I guess the format is what it is throughout.

Thanks, it’s normally to “rouse” everyone out of bed - having googled it, apparently “roust” is North American English version, which obviously most UK 11 year-olds will know (!).

I would not say rouse out of bed, the usage is just rouse someone. Collins says roust is used in British English - transitive, often followed by out - to rout or stir, as in out of bed.

Agree not a word familiar to 10yos maybe. They would know stable tho.

A lot of these questions are testing the process of elimination so they intentionally use an unusual word like roust that most wouldn't know but expect a 10/11 year old to know stable and that none of the others fit hence the answer should be c.

Robot and stales by moving the S

Ignore that. I can't read!

Even if the child doesn't know the word roust (fair), it's very much the logical answer so their verbal reasoning is definitely being tested.

When DS did the 11+ there was a list/lists of regular words that could come up.
It's worth downloading and learning a couple a day as that really helps. Start now for next September then a nice gentle learning curve. Plus vocab is always useful in life so it's one that is actually worth doing raher than simply teaching to a test

You can’t delete any letters… you haven’t used the ‘u’

Yes indeed. It's always useful to know words and what they mean and how to use them <glares at colleagues who use long words they don’t know the meaning of – incorrectly of course>

Exactly it is verbal reasoning so it is just as much working out what the logical answer has to be and it is a fairly quick thing to do so