ST MARYS EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY offers 11 Plus tuition in Cambridgeshire – City Centre & Hampton and through Online lessons. We strive to cover the entire aspects pertaining towards the grammar school which is English, Maths, Verbal, Non-Verbal, and Spatial Reasoning required for both Spalding grammar, Bourne Grammar and other grammar schools 11 Plus Tests. Our trained, specialist teachers use an organised and engaging approach to ensure your child is ready for the 11 plus exam at grammar Schools or other entrance exams for independent school success.
The 11 Plus exam for a grammar or an independent school can be very different from county to county however, the core subject areas will be the same as above. We will tailor your child’s 11 Plus preparation to your chosen school, providing additional study guides at no cost.
Comprehension – students will be offered questions on a paragraph between around 500- 1000 words. It can be either a classical text (like Charles Dickens) or a more factual text (such as a newspaper report).
Vocabulary – They may be questioned various words to given a synonyms/antonyms task, or a cloze exercise (missing words from a text) to do.
Spelling/Punctuation/Grammar – There can be questions where it may include correcting mistakes in a passage. Spelling areas include homophones (words that sound the same, but are spelt differently and have different meanings, this overlaps with the vocabulary area), words with double letters, and normally misspelt words.
Literary Devices – They may be asked to identify literary devices, such as similes, personification, or onomatopoeia.
Literacy Reasoning – Tests without a dedicated Verbal Reasoning section. Questions can cover rhyming words, anagrams, crosswords, odd words out, or putting jumbled words, sentences, and paragraphs in the correct order.
Creative Writing – Usually 11 Plus questions for grammar schools will be in multiple choice format as it’s easier to mark. Some areas that include Creative Writing will only grade it for students who are close in marks and are competing for a final place. In independent school tests, Creative Writing is nearly always included and marked.
The fundamental concepts of 11 Plus Maths tests are: Number; Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages; Handling Data; and Shape and Space Measurement.
Verbal Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning tests a combination of vocabulary knowledge, spelling, logical reasoning, and code deciphering.
Non-Verbal and Spatial Reasoning
Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning tests students’ logic and observation skills by giving them shapes and patterns asking them to find the odd one out, two shapes which are most similar, or a missing shape in a series.
Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning is given as a test of ‘pure intelligence’, asking students to solve visual problems without the need to draw on prerequisite information.
Students require to be aware of such concepts as symmetry, rotation, and reflection.