Advice for Redbridge and Essex preparation
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The best available commercially are the Bond. These at least have a comprehension section. If you ignore the extra grammar bits and perhaps make up your own match the word section.
For punctuation just take a bit of speech from an English text and remove the punctuation for DC. This is then easy to mark for you.
For punctuation just take a bit of speech from an English text and remove the punctuation for DC. This is then easy to mark for you.
Essex Eleven plus English
Thank you, moving, for getting back to me so quickly. I have now ordered Bond 11+ papers. Are the assessment paper books equally useful even though the comprehensions are rather short?
Yes they are and they are good value for money, 10 papers/ 100 questions per paper. I use the upper end - 5th/6th papers. The questions are wordier than the Essex 11+, but they do require a high level of decoding of the text. The second half of the papers is not required for Essex, but gives them good English reinforcement anyway. For each paper find a piece of speech and get your child to punctuate it.
Marks for punctuation are very meagre these days, 6-8 for quite a lot of work. Nonetheless, it is 6-8 easy guaranteed marks, so worth working on.
e.g.
what on earth is it jane said shall we take it home
“What on earth is it?â€
Marks for punctuation are very meagre these days, 6-8 for quite a lot of work. Nonetheless, it is 6-8 easy guaranteed marks, so worth working on.
e.g.
what on earth is it jane said shall we take it home
“What on earth is it?â€
Thanks for the advice. My daughter finds the Bond English books rather laborious and does not enjoy doing them. However, if I just focus on the comprehensions, hopefully this will make it more palatable for her. I agree that the comprehensions are very good and I will order the level 5 and 6 books and just focus on the first section.
Thanks again
Thanks again