Key Details

Course length: 5 days.

Single workshop length: 1.5 hours (including a 5-minute break).

Total course length: 7.5 hours.

Start date: Sunday 19th January 2025.

Time: 9:00am-10:30am.

Exam style: suitable for all 11+ exam styles which test verbal reasoning (GL Assessment, CEM, CAT4, ISEB Common Pre-Test, Kent Test and Sutton SET).

Message us on WhatsApp or email us if you’d like to check the suitability of this course for your target school.

Spaces: 12.

Appropriate for: year 5 and 6 students.

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Course Dates

Workshop 1 — Sunday 19th January 2025, 9:00am-10:30am.

Workshop 2 — Sunday 26th January 2025, 9:00am-10:30am.

Workshop 3 — Sunday 2nd February 2025, 9:00am-10:30am.

Workshop 4 — Sunday 9th February 2025, 9:00am-10:30am.

Workshop 5 — Sunday 16th February 2025, 9:00am-10:30am.

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Course Outline

If your child is preparing for 11+ grammar or independent school entrance, there will usually be a verbal reasoning exam. During a verbal reasoning exercise, the depth and range of a student's vocabulary is assessed. They will also be asked to use logic to solve problems involving words and letters.

In this course, we will review all the common verbal reasoning question types, providing students with our exam techniques and recommended approach to complete any verbal reasoning exercise quickly and accurately. Students will broaden and deepen their vocabulary throughout this course. They will also have plenty of opportunity to practise implementing the techniques we recommend on practice exam questions.

10 verbal reasoning questions will be set as a homework task after each workshop. This will be marked by our tutors and then returned, with personalised verbal feedback on each assignment, focusing on specific corrections and general areas for improvement. Importantly, the tutor will not just say what the correct answer is, but they will explain to the student how they could have found the answer. The verbal feedback is usually up to 5 minutes long per submission and is delivered as an audio file that can be played on a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Along with brief written corrections, the consumable audio recording ensures students are absorbing as much of the feedback given about their work as possible.

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Tutor

This course will be delivered by The Exam Coach’s team of tutors. 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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Verbal Reasoning Question Types Covered

1. Closest meanings/synonyms

2. Opposite meanings/antonyms

3. Multiple meanings

4. Odd one out

5. Cloze – Missing letters

6. Cloze – Missing words

7. Word connections

8. Compound words

9. Forming new words

10. Complete a word pair

11. Word ladders

12. Reordering words in a sentence

13. Anagram in a sentence

14. Jumbled sentences

15. Insert a letter

16. Move a letter

17. Hidden word

18. Missing word

19. Using rules to make a word

20. Explore the facts

21. Solve the riddle

22. Letter sequences

23. Number sequences

24. Number brackets/connections

25. Letter word codes

26. Number word codes

27. Symbol codes

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Course Resources

Worksheets, class notes and homework are sent out before the start of the course. These can either be printed or viewed digitally. For all workshops, your child will receive:

1. A worksheet to complete in the workshop

2. Class notes to help consolidate learning and give students an opportunity to recap some of what was covered in the workshop.

3. A 10 question homework task.

Each workshop’s homework should be submitted before the start of the next where possible. Though, it will still be marked if handed in slightly later.

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Homework and Marking

A verbal reasoning homework assignment is set for all students after each workshop, focusing on the question types covered in each session. They can complete this task after the workshop has finished and it should then be sent to us via email (teamkeen@theexamcoach.tv). Each piece of homework will then be individually marked and reviewed by the tutor (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 receive a confirmation email. You will receive the course invitation and all resources during the week before the course starts. These will be sent to the email address entered at checkout.

If you have any questions, please contact us via WhatsApp on +44 7547 645100, you can also send a message here.