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Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:37 am
by JustaDad
Anybody please pm me a good tutor in Birmingham for my son going for 13 plus exam. I have searched whole of the net, but could not find any body with a definite experience or level of expertise. I am looking for somebody for english, verbal reasoning or maths...... all by one tutor or separately.
Please help, this might be my son's only chance to get to a grammar school.
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:47 am
by no_ball
Did you mean KECH?
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:30 am
by JustaDad
No. King edward school birmingham.
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:28 am
by no_ball
That one is not grammar
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:43 am
by hermanmunster
Not a GS now - used to be a Direct Grant Grammar school in the good old days....
However it is a selective indie and hence the 13+ exam.
Justadad - is your DS at school locally now? How is he getting on? Are there any teachers there you could ask about tutors? Would any of them be able to help?
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:08 pm
by JustaDad
We are outside B'ham and this is where my son is going to a local school, he's doing average at school.
Not much help from local tutors / teachers but B'ham being a larger city with multiple GSs was thinking of getting him a good tuition from there, so that he is well prepared for the exam.
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:35 pm
by hermanmunster
KES is a pretty competitive academic school and I think few get in at 13, your DS will have to do very well in the exams to get a place - hence I agree with your wish to get him well prepared. Did he try any of the exams at 11 plus time?
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:53 pm
by no_ball
Yea thought so, it used to be a grammar but is now private with sprinkling of bursary and scholarships.
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:12 pm
by JustaDad
He missed 11 plus because of not being in UK.
Did get a chance to appear in one exam for an additional seat again at KES, but could not qualify.
Re: Tutor for 13 plus KES B'ham
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:14 pm
by hermanmunster
no_ball wrote:Yea thought so, it used to be a grammar but is now private with sprinkling of bursary and scholarships.
Quite a few of the old DGGS became private - others became state schools when the DG funding was removed in 1974.
Many had Grammar in their titles - others didn't (Mancheste Grammar) .
Just to confuse matters there are quite a few schools in Yorkshire (Ilkley, Otley and Harrogate) that have the name grammar but are comprehensives.