Skills covered
Equivalent ratios
Scaling up and down
Part-to-part reasoning
Unit rates
Word problem setup
Victory 11+ Maths
11+ Ratio and Proportion Practice
Ratio questions test whether a child can compare parts, scale quantities and keep the relationship between numbers steady. Strong ratio confidence helps with word problems, percentages and later algebra.
Common mistakes
Scaling only one side of the ratio
Mixing up part-to-part and part-to-whole
Using addition where multiplication is needed
Original practice examples
Sample questions with explanations
medium
Original sampleIn a box of pencils, the ratio of blue pencils to yellow pencils is 4:7. If there are 28 yellow pencils, how many blue pencils are there?
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Answer: 16. Seven parts represent 28 pencils, so one part is 4. Blue pencils are 4 parts, which is 4 x 4 = 16.
hard
Original sampleA drink is mixed using squash and water in the ratio 2:5. If 14 cups of water are used, how many cups of squash are needed?
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Answer: 6. Five water parts equal 14 cups, so one part is 2.8. Two squash parts equal 5.6, so about 6 cups if whole cups are required.
Parents also ask
What ratio skills matter most for the 11+?
Children need to scale ratios, find missing parts and translate short word problems into a relationship between numbers.
How should my child practise ratio questions?
Start with untimed scaling questions, then move into mixed word problems and finally short timed sets.