11+

If you are looking at this page then you are considering or have already started tuition for 11+. It is a daunting time for a 10 year old to go through. Are Grammar schools worth it? You wouldn't go through it if you didn't believe that.

The level of questioning in the 11+ has risen to such an extent that very few, if any, 10 year olds would pass it without extensive extra tuition. Sadly, the level needed cannot be covered properly in a school environment which has a set curriculum to follow, and many children in the same class who have no intentions of writing the 11+.

The education your child receives from school must not be underestimated, because without it they would not have the foundations for a tutor to build on for the 11+. The more gaps there are in their foundation the further back and the longer the time needed with a tutor.

If your child has had a very good education then on average they will need approximately 1year of private tuition. However, more and more parents are choosing to start in Year 4 because the date in Essex has been brought forward to November.

It is very important that Verbal Reasoning be introduced much earlier, and it is mostly only preparatory schools that have this built into their curriculums.