If your child has dyslexia and you are wondering whether the 11+ is fair, possible, or worthattempting, this article is for you. The short answer is yes, children with dyslexia can absolutely succeed at the 11+, including at the mostselective …
If your child is applying to NLCS, St Paul’s, Westminster, Eton, Habs Girls, City of London or any ofthe 50 plus highly selective independents that use the ISEB Common Pre Test, this exam is what stage1 of their selection process …
CEM is a name many parents have grown up associating with the 11+. The exam itself has beenrebranded; it is now formally called Cambridge Select Insight, run by Cambridge University Press andAssessment. The structure has evolved with the rebrand, but …
If your child is targeting QE Boys, Henrietta Barnett, Tiffin, the Sutton grammars (Wilson’s, Sutton, Wallington), Wilmington, the Reading Kendrick School, or many of the other state grammars across England, the 11+ exam they sit will be set by GL …
Non verbal reasoning divides children into two camps. There are children who see patterns immediately, who find the questions enjoyable, and who score well from the first paper. And there are children who stare at the page, see nothing, and …
Verbal reasoning is the most coachable subject in the entire 11+. Once a child has met each of the 21 standard question types, learned the technique behind each one, and practised against a clock, scores often rise 20 percentage points …
Most 11+ maths children can do the maths. What they cannot always do is recognise which maths to use, in what order, against an unfamiliar wording. That recognition is what we call problem solving. And it is genuinely teachable. Here …
11+ maths is not particularly difficult maths. There are no quadratic equations, no algebra beyond simple substitution, no trigonometry. The whole syllabus sits within the Key Stage 2 national curriculum. And yet, year after year, maths is the subject where …
If your child needs a vocabulary lift but you do not have hours to spend on it, this article is for you. Eight practical things, none of which take longer than 10 minutes a day, all of which work. 1. …
If I could fix one thing in 11+ preparation across the country, it would not be reasoning. It would not be maths technique. It would be vocabulary. A child with a thin vocabulary is capped on every other element of …