KEY DETAILS

Crash course length: 2 hours (including a 5-minute break).

Spaces: 12.

Appropriate for: year 6 students who will be sitting a London Consortium 11 Plus entrance exam this year.

Exam style: suitable for students taking the London Consortium 11+ entry exams this year for the following schools:

• Channing School

• Francis Holland School (Regent’s Park)

• Francis Holland School (Sloane Square)

• Godolphin and Latymer

• More House School

• Northwood College for Girls

• Notting Hill and Ealing High School

• Queen’s College London

• Queen’s Gate school

• South Hampstead High School

• St Augustine’s Priory

• St Helen’s School London

• St. James Senior Girls’ School

• St Margaret's School

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SESSION DATE AND TIME

Saturday 17th November 2024, 11:00am-1:00pm.

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TUTOR

This crash course will be delivered by the team of tutors at The Exam Coach.

All of our tutors have:

• Passed competitive exams such as the 11 Plus.

• Attended a Russell Group University within the last 5-10 years.

• Received two weeks of training to deliver expertly within our online workshop format.

• Taught our 11 Plus exam preparation curriculum on a regular basis within the last two years.

In every session, two members of staff will always be on hand: the tutor and a technical support assistant. This means sessions always start smoothly and on time, with a seamless teaching experience throughout.

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SESSION OUTLINE

If your child is preparing for 11+ entrance to a London Consortium school, there will be a comprehension section as part of the English test. During a comprehension exercise, students are required to read through a passage of text (fiction, poetry or non-fiction) and answer different types of questions about the text. These questions test a student's understanding of the text, as well as the role of specific phrases and words within it. Questions cover skills such as:

1. Recall

2. Inference and deduction

3. Understanding meaning

4. Language techniques and imagery

5. Types of words or phrases

In this crash course, we will teach students the comprehension exam techniques and thought processes our students have used successfully in the past, specifically for online comprehension exams like the one used by the London Consortium. Students will then practise these skills on a tricky exam paper text.

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KEY COMPREHENSION SKILLS COVERED

1) Fast and accurate reading. Students will learn how to read through a large, unseen text extract quickly and accurately. We will teach them speed-reading and note-taking techniques that will save them time and improve their accuracy when answering questions.

2) Minimising mistakes. Students will be taught how to read questions carefully and spot what examiners might do to trip them up! We will also show students how to be methodical by using a process of elimination to arrive at the correct answer every time.

3) Vocabulary expansion. As part of this course, we will focus on expanding your child’s vocabulary. We will work through some complex synonyms and antonyms for more high level vocabulary words within each exam text we study. This will help student’s answer vocabulary-related questions as well as their overall understanding.

4) Inference. Inference is the skill of knowing or working out what an author means, even if it is not directly said in the text. We will teach students to become detectives, searching their comprehension texts for answers that make sense based on the given information.

5) Application of skills to real 11 Plus exam questions. Students will be tested on multiple types of comprehension texts and questions. We will show them the important exam techniques we recommended — for example, in what order and how to complete the paper most efficiently. We will then explain important academic concepts they need to know about. Then, we’ll test them regularly to ensure this essential knowledge is retained.

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COURSE RESOURCES

Homework, worksheets and all other resources are sent out before the start of the course. Class notes should be used to consolidate learning, provide answers to the class test, and give students an opportunity to recap some of what was covered in the course. Homework with be marked and returned with feedback within 48 hours of it being submitted.

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HOMEWORK AND MARKING

A 25-minute comprehension task is set for all students after the workshop. They can complete this task after the workshop has finished and it should then be sent to us via email (teamkeen@theexamcoach.tv). Homework will then be individually marked and reviewed by our team (usually within 2 working days). For each submission, you will receive:

1. An annotated copy of the homework, marking correct and incorrect answers.

2. A 5-minute-long voice note from the tutor to your child, celebrating good answers, correcting any mistakes and highlighting areas for improvement. Importantly, our tutors will show your child the process required to arrive at correct answers, as opposed to simply telling them what the correct answer is.

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HOW TO JOIN

After purchase, you will be automatically invited to the crash course roughly 24 hours before the start time (or as soon as possible if the workshop starts in sooner than 24 hours). Confirmation emails will be delivered to the email address you provide at the checkout. If you have any questions, please contact us via WhatsApp on +44 7547 645100, you can also send a message here.