Tag: elevenplus
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Go Backwards Technique – score higher in 11plus practice tests and writing
“You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Dr Seuss The Go Backwards technique is an ally of the Go Forwards technique. Very simply, do the test until finished, no matter how long it takes.How long did it take? As with yesterday’s Go Forwards Technique, celebrate this – you have a benchmark to start from.…
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Go Forwards technique: How to use time to get better scores in 11plus practice tests
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S.Eliot Happy Classroom 3 (Part 3 of a series on how time helps your child prepare and pass.) The Go Forwards technique has one aim: increase the number of questionsyour child can answer within the time set by…
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7 Happy Ways You Should Be Using Time NOW To Pass The Eleven Plus
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7 Happy Ways You Should Be Using Time NOW To Pass The Eleven Plus
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Part 2 of seriously un-serious* ways to help your child remember serious words
You know your child, you know what they like. The single rule might be: “Many ways for different brains.” Here is a happy handful of word-learning games. Feel free to use these as springboards to get into the activity of designing or improvising games with your child as co-inventor. 1. Does your child sing? Have…
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Completely un-serious ways to help our children remember serious words
Really, we could stop the post right here, use the above heading as an instruction, and you and your child can get going thinking up seriously un-serious ways to remember serious words. So we will… See you soon, have a happy, fun day of learning. P.S. I’ll share some un-serious ways tomorrow. Take care, keep…
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Superinfluence Part 2 continued: What’s in the 11+ test?
Yesterday’s blog hopefully sent you off on a hunt for dates of application for the grammar schools you are interested in. Today, we deal with the holy grail of knowing what is in the test. That would make all the difference, right? If we could see how it was laid out, what the question types…
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Superinfluence Part 2: Deciding what and how starts with where
Okay, decision time. This level of superinfluence happens either before, or in the early stages of, helping your child be superhero prepared and happy. Your child can’t do this because they don’t know the choices. They can’t see over the fence of the next hour without your help. That’s how children are; totally immersed in…
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SUPERINFLUENCE: “I am the single most important factor in my child’s 11+ success.”
I know you could have told yourself that, but here’s what that one truth means. Your child:- 1. Loves you. 2. Believes you. 3. Needs you. 4. Learns from you. 5. Learns everything about how to be, learn and think from you. Your son or daughter at primary school age looks up to you –…
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Your 11+ Dream is Real
I know how impossible it can feel and have learned how possible it is. I’ve lived on both sides. When we were sent the email from our local borough of Merton confirming our son had won his place, we exploded. We cried, hugged, laughed, then headed straight out for his celebration meal. My wife and…