11+ Exam Prep Year 5

Course Overview

Year 5 is crucial for 11+ entrance exam preparation. Our 11+ preparation tutoring covers the full Year 5 syllabus in a short time, including NFER, GL Assessment, CSSE, SET, and CEM exam papers. 

The course builds skills, speed, and confidence to tackle exams under time constraints, essential for top grammar and independent schools.

11 Plus Maths - Year 5

We revise basic Maths skills appropriate to KS2 and early KS3. We focus on more challenging topics which children find difficult such as Fractions, Decimals, Ratios, Percentages Money, Time, Imperial and Metric Measurements, Geometry, Statistics, Shapes, Work Consumption, Cubes and Nets, Area and Volume, Magic Squares, Basic and Advance Algebra.

We also cover core skills such as Numbers, Place Value, methods for Addition, Subtraction, Division,Times Tables and word problem-solving skills. 

11 Plus English - Year 5

The English syllabus includes comprehension practice in both formal and informal writing styles. We look at developing comprehension skills like, reading the text for meaning, understanding of the use of language, literal or metaphorical; understanding purpose of text and viewpoint; learning how to read between the lines and to infer meaning; and learning how to give a personal response to a piece of writing.

We focus on fiction & non-fiction stories, poetry, plays, grammar and punctuation techniques to enhance vocabulary, spelling, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. 

11 Plus Verbal Reasoning 

This covers a variety of different styles of questions, teaching students how to choose the correct synonym or antonym, finding the odd one out, word analogies and re-ordering jumbled sentences, analytical thinking, numerical reasoning and how to complete cloze exercises.

11 Plus Non Verbal Reasoning

This course covers techniques and strategies for tackling the different types of Non Verbal Reasoning questions. It is especially suited for those who are struggling with particular areas such as matrices, rotating cubes, missing part of a sequence and shape analogies.

11 Plus Creative Writing

Our specialist English teachers develop creative and imaginative ideas, linked to the technical skills of building vocabulary and a story structure to develop a final polished piece, deliverable within a given time frame, ticking all the boxes to gain maximum marks. 

This tutoring course also teaches and gives tips for correcting grammar, punctuation, and general organisation and structure of texts, including paragraphing.