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Eleven Plus Exams 2024 Mocks Released

At Eleven Plus Exams we offer both in-person and online mock exams for GL, CEM and ISEB exam boards, with accurate difficulty levels, timings and feedback...

Introducing Our New Word Game: Elexicon

Our new word game, Elexicon, has launched for students studying with us as part of our tuition courses. Elexicon is a dynamic online vocabulary building game...

Welcome to our 2024 students!

Enrollment for our 2024 online tuition courses are open for years 3, 4 and 5. Winter break is over and January marks the beginning of a...

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Eleven Plus Exams 2024 Mocks Released

At Eleven Plus Exams we offer both in-person and online mock exams for GL, CEM and ISEB exam...

I regret sending my daughter to a grammar school

Gillian, a careers advisor from Lincolnshire, tells i why despite grammars being hugely oversubscribed. She wishes her daughter...

Grammar schools braced for surge in demand as Labour plans to tax private education fees

Private schools could face an exodus of pupils under a plan to include education costs in VAT, according...

Welcome to Starmer’s Britain, where class hatred will ruin our private schools

I don’t expect Sir Keir Starmer (Reigate Grammar School before it went private) is losing much sleep over the fact...

Two in three teachers say AI is ‘too unreliable’ to assess pupils’ work – survey

The poll, of 1,012 UK teachers, suggests that 13% think a new grading system for exams should be...

I’m an 11-plus tutor – cramming doesn’t work, this is what to do instead

Ilana King has a long waiting list of prospective children; in her 13 years tutoring, she has never...

How to survive the 11-plus interview: a parent’s guide

Newcomers to England who start a family are often slow to realise that one of the biggest factors...

‘Children are being failed’: why more English parents are home educating

Fines, health needs, and a poor learning environment are among the reasons for the rise in children taken...

Kent’s private schools see significant drop in Kent Test success rates prompting suspicion parents are opting instead for private tutors

The number of children from private schools passing the Kent Test has dramatically dropped, it has been revealed.

Doing Educational Equity Right: The Homework Gap

The question is not whether students should do homework but how to help them do more

One in five students gain place at grammar school through head teacher assessment after 11+ fail

More than 20% of Kent pupils are getting into grammar schools after failing the 11-plus exam, according to...

The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling

Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them