11 Plus (11+) Individual Tuition Workshops

Key Details

⏱️ Workshop length: 45 minutes

🧮 Available spaces: 30

🗓️ Workshop dates: every Tuesday and Wednesday (excluding national holidays).

⏰ Workshop times: 7pm-7:45pm.

📚 Subjects covered: 11 Plus English Comprehension, Creative Writing, Verbal Reasoning and English Vocabulary.

👧 Appropriate for: year 5 and 6 students preparing for the 11 Plus exams.

Sessions can be booked individually above. For bulk bookings, please see our monthly Class Passes.

Workshops Summary

If your child is preparing for 11+ Grammar or Independent School entrance, there will usually be an English or verbal reasoning section as part of their exam. In our weekly workshops, our tutors walk students through our recommended approach for answering different styles of common 11 Plus exam question. The focus is always on exam technique and practice – ensuring your child is ready and confident on exam day.

Exam Coach workshops are upbeat and engaging with short stories, funny GIFs and memes (designed to aid learning), as well as quick fire tests to ensure students are retaining information. If you’d like your child to participate in an enjoyable and worthwhile learning experience - sign them up!

Please see below for more details on the different types of session.

In our 11 Plus weekly workshops, your tutor will share some background information about themselves and our workshops with new students. This is followed by 40 minutes of teaching time. Our tuition includes:

• Exam-style questions

• Competitive class testing

• Self-assessed testing

• Walkthrough of answers

• Short, fun examples and stories

• Chat function used for questions and answers 

• No personal video/audio

Each weekly tuition workshop is standalone, meaning your child does not need to have attended any previous sessions to join one.

Class notes are sent out 24 hours after each workshop to help students recap what they have learnt.

All of our tuition workshops are delivered via Zoom. Students’ camera and microphone access are not required for weekly workshops. In these sessions, students can communicate with their tutor using the chat function.

Types of Workshop

The content of each session varies between:

📖 11 Plus Comprehension

Comprehension appears in almost all 11+ examinations. In each comprehension workshop, the tutor will walk students through an exam-style text, showing them how to best handle and annotate it. Then they will answer 10 questions, focusing on elements such as the process of elimination, minimising mistakes and literary devices.

✏️ 11 Plus Creative Writing

Our creative writing weekly tuition focuses on using exam-style questions as prompts to help students work together to craft model answers. In each session, students will be given some exam questions and model sentences which could be used to create a high-scoring beginning, middle and end. They will then work on their own answers with the tutor, improving and extending them as they go. 

🧠 11 Plus Verbal Reasoning

Our weekly tuition sessions for verbal reasoning focus on synonyms and antonyms (words with close and opposite meanings). Word meaning plays a huge part in most verbal reasoning exams. In these sessions, we work through several different types of exam-style question, ensuring students understand the technique and thought process behind answering each one.

🗣️ 11 Plus English Vocabulary Workout

Designed to expand vocabulary and knowledge of word meanings, key for both English and verbal reasoning 11+ exams. Even if students know how to solve a type of verbal reasoning question, if they don’t know the vocabulary used in the question, they could still get a wrong answer! Therefore, these sessions aim to broaden each child’s knowledge of English vocabulary as much as possible, using words we’ve previously seen appear in 11+ exams.

Appropriate For

• Pupils in year 5 and 6 preparing for the 11 Plus exams.

• Each workshop is self-contained. This means you can join a workshop whenever it suits your child, they do not need to have attended any other workshops beforehand.

Tutor

All workshops will be delivered by The Exam Coach’s team of tutors. Our tutors have:

• Passed competitive exams such as the 11 Plus.

• Attended a Russell Group University within the last 5-10 years.

• Received two weeks of training to deliver expertly within our online workshop format.

• Taught our 11 Plus exam preparation curriculum on a regular basis within the last two years.

In every session, two members of staff will always be on hand: the tutor and a technical support assistant. This means sessions always start smoothly and on time, with a seamless teaching experience throughout.

Resources

Class notes are sent out 24 hours after each session. These can either be printed or viewed digitally. The class notes to help consolidate learning and give students an opportunity to recap some of what was covered in the workshop. They also include the answers to a class test which is completed at the end of the workshop for comprehension and verbal reasoning sessions.

How To Join

After purchase, you will receive a confirmation email. You’ll then automatically receive Zoom invitations on the Monday before each session.

All invitations will be delivered to the email address you provide at the checkout.

If you have any questions, please contact us via WhatsApp on +44 7547 645100, you can also send a message here.