Data Handling in the 11+ — Questions, Worked Answers and Practice Papers

What examiners actually ask

Data Handling appears in 8 of our 338 ready papers (90 tagged questions). It averages 11.3 questions a paper worth about 1 mark each. The typical question allows around 34 sec.

Some English and reasoning papers include data-handling questions: tables, simple charts, or information grids that must be read accurately. These sit beside comprehension rather than inside pure Maths statistics. Children who rush the story and ignore the table miss easy marks. Teach a scan routine — read column headings first, then the question, then only the cells you need. Because this tag is less common than comprehension, use the papers list here to find the few papers that include it and practise those formats. Link Maths graphs hubs when the skill is really chart-reading arithmetic. Keep answers short and evidence-based: quote the cell or row that justifies the response.

Common mistakes

• Reading the wrong row or column because headings were skipped.
• Answering from general knowledge instead of the table’s data.
• Mixing units or categories that look similar in adjacent cells.
• Spending comprehension-level time on a question that only needs a careful lookup.

Papers with the most Data Handling questions

Ranked from our tagged catalogue — open a paper to practise the questions that actually test this topic.

Related topics

• Comprehension
• Fact Finding
• Verbal Reasoning
• Inference
• Interpretation
• Word Meaning