VERBAL REASONING • Cloze - missing letters in a sentence/text
Hi,Does anyone have any tips on how to tackle missing letters - cloze and quickly. My son is struggling to complete these in time. TIAStatistics: Posted by Selina24 — Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:20 pm
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11 PLUS TIPS • 30 days till Exams - revision strategy
Hi therewith only 30 days to go until the first of the 11+ plus exmas kick off, what should our revision timetable look like? Me and husband both work have taken time off but want to make sure we...
View Article11 PLUS APPEALS • Re: Bucks: Headteacher not supportive
As a final update to this post, I am delighted to say that the Appeal was successful! The panel took into account DS' good score for the 13+, and the fact that his current school was not meeting his...
View Article11 PLUS TIPS • Re: 30 days till Exams - revision strategy
Two papers a day? That sounds excessive,With 4 weeks to go your child has done the bulk of the work already: looked at question topics, worked on exam technique, taken mini tests and probably a mock...
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GENERAL 11 PLUS TOPICS • Re: Why grammar school?
Thank you @Aethel,Glad to be here. I've learned so much since joining. The amount of content is mind-boggling. I didn't realise all the location dependent nuances.This whole process is like an...
View ArticleSurrey (Sutton, Kingston and Wandsworth) • Catchment area for The Tiffin...
Hello, We live in KT8; are we in the catchment area for The Tiffin Girls' School? ThanksStatistics: Posted by Delina2014 — Sun Aug 04, 2024 8:23 am
View ArticleSurrey (Sutton, Kingston and Wandsworth) • Re: Catchment area for The Tiffin...
Hello and welcome to the forumThe admissions policy explains the allocation of places, it looks like KT8 is in the designated area - this means that you will be considered after the first places are...
View ArticleGloucestershire • Re: 2024 exam prep for 2025 entry
Starting to feel so nervous!! My DD is very chilled about it. Eeekk...!Statistics: Posted by StargazerLily — Mon Aug 05, 2024 12:13 am
View ArticleBirmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Wrekin • Re: School bus service...
Update from Thandi coaches is that they will not be offering a service to Fiveways because they were attempting to offer 1 bus to serve the school and the interested families were distributed over too...
View ArticleENGLISH • English Prep DAO
HiMy child is sitting DAO exams net month - understand they need to pass VR before getting to English but how best to prepare in the next few weeks?What should we be doing with him? He is doing past...
View ArticleMATHS • Maths prep - Scores up and down
HiWe are going to be sitting 11+ for SW, Latymer and DAO next month and my sons maths score vary quite a fair bit. on the GL MC maths he has been scoring +90%, as well as Latymer paper 80-90% however...
View ArticleMATHS • Re: Maths prep - Scores up and down
Your SW HERTS and Latymer Maths papers will be GL format Maths so I suggest you put all your focus on that format as these will be the first two papers that he will sit.Which school is your first...
View ArticleENGLISH • Length of GL comprehension papers
Im looking at paper 3 in the comprehension set - it is 2 1/2 pages long of reading - will the reading in the real test be this long?If not , what is a typical length please ? We've mainly been doing...
View ArticleHertfordshire (Other and North London) • When to start test prep for DAO and...
Hello lovely parents,Islington-based dad here. DS will be starting year 4 in the autumn. We are considering applying for DAO and Latymer.Given we have 2 years from now, I'm wondering when would be a...
View ArticleKent • TOGS catchment area
Hi,I am fairly new to this forum and was hoping the experienced parents here would be able to help me with a query on the catchment area for TOGS.Would Swanley be In Area or OOC for TOGS. As per the...
View ArticleKent • Re: TOGS catchment area
The tie-breaker only comes into effect where there are two or more on the same score for the last place available. Otherwise if you are in one of Tonbridge & Malling Borough, Tunbridge Wells...
View ArticleHertfordshire (Other and North London) • Re: When to start test prep for DAO...
This sounds like an excellent structure but you do need to put focus on the VR as both Latymer and DAO use a VR paper to reduce the numbers of English papers they have to mark.DAO have around one...
View ArticleEssex • CSSE mock scores
Hi,New to the forum and currently freaking out because my DD’s mock scores are all over place. Sometimes she scores 40/60 on maths and sometimes 28/60. She’s born in June and although we feel it might...
View ArticleEssex • Re: CSSE 11+ Percentage on practice papers = good enough score?!
My daughter was getting 50-60% on practice papers occasionally more in the maths. She ended up with 352, so I would say 80% is higher than you need.Hi!Can you share her birth month please? My daughter...
View ArticleKent • Tutoring method
Did your tutor / you teach the exam through exam papers or basics first then exam papers?Not sure how to approach this as will be tutoring my daughter from September … Thank youStatistics: Posted by...
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