Tag: 11plus advice
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11 Plus Happy! – 88 Essential Grammar School Steps you and your child MUST do Now is free for 5 days on kindle!
YES! YES! YES! It’s free! Please, if you are serious about helping your child to 11 plus success, read my first book for free for a very limited time. Amazon lets authors offer their books once for 5 days in every 90 days. Tomorrow, 15th August, to celebrate A-level results day – begin with the…
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Do you really, really believe your child will succeed in the 11 Plus exam?
Good morning, 11plus families and all those supporting them. Quick question? Are you visualising your child’s success in the entrance test? Seriously, do you believe it can happen? It’s vital you do and here’s the most important reason why – if you fully believe it can happen, even will happen, then you will DO MORE, TAKE MORE…
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Do the keyword dance: How to use (and not use) keywords to answer multiple choice comprehension questions
PLEASE READ THIS – YOUR CHILD’S 11 PLUS SUCCESS MAY DEPEND ON IT. Forgive the capitals and the warning, but I’m writing this immediately after a teaching session, in which my very capable student learned a hack and then did something unexpected that your child must not do! To set the context, I’m including the…
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Know when to take a break – when 11 plus learning gets too much…
I know – we have to keep up daily learning with our children, especially over the summer holidays, if we are to reach our goal of running out of things our child doesn’t know by the time the exam comes round. In fact, you may never actually need the kind of break I’m talking about.…
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How can you help your 11 plus child in the summer holidays? Try this 15hr weekly plan.
(Part 4 of a 4-blog mini-series.) Actually, it looks as if it will be a five-blog mini-series; there’s a lot of info to help you. All to the good. The last time we spoke, we looked generally at morning and afternoon patterns of learning. What follows is a zoomed-in look at a day from an…