Key Details

Pass duration: 1st-31st January 2025.

Single workshop length: 45 minutes.

Total tuition duration: 6 hours.

Dates: Every Tuesday and Wednesday in January (excluding 1st January).

Time: 7:00pm-7:45pm.

Subjects covered: 11 Plus English Comprehension, Creative Writing, Verbal Reasoning and English Vocabulary.

Class Pass discount: 25% (save £30).

Appropriate for: year 5 and 6 students preparing for the 11 Plus exams.

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Workshop Schedule

• Tuesday 7th January, 7pm: 🧠 11+ Verbal Reasoning — Closest Meanings 5

• Wednesday 8th January, 7pm: ✏️ 11+ Creative Writing — Picture Prompts 10

• Tuesday 14th January, 7pm: 🗣️ 11+ English Vocabulary — Tricky Vocabulary 6

• Wednesday 15th January, 7pm: ✏️ 11+ Creative Writing — Picture Prompts 11

• Tuesday 21st January, 7pm: 👦 11+ Comprehension — Oliver Twist

• Wednesday 22nd January, 7pm: 🧠 11+ Verbal Reasoning — Opposite Meanings 5

• Tuesday 28th January, 7pm: ✏️ 11+ Creative Writing — Picture Prompts 12

• Wednesday 29th January, 7pm: 🗣️ 11+ English Vocabulary — Tricky Vocabulary 7

Please note, a workshop will not take place on 1st January due to the national holiday.

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Description

Our January schedule will consist of two 45-minute 11+ tuition sessions running every week. Weekly workshops are designed to be attended regularly to ensure continuous, steady progression for your child in the build up to their exam date. They provide a great way to consistently practise the important 11 Plus skills each week.

Our January Class Pass includes access to all 8 of these sessions running in January 2025, at a 25% discount, saving you £30!

In our 11 Plus weekly workshops, your tutor will share some background information about themselves and our workshops with new students. This is followed by 40 minutes of teaching time. Our tuition includes:

• Exam-style questions

• Competitive class testing

• Self-assessed testing

• Walkthrough of answers

• Short, fun examples and stories

• Chat function used for questions and answers 

• No personal video/audio

Each weekly tuition workshop is standalone, meaning your child does not need to have attended any previous sessions to join one.

Class notes are sent out 24 hours after each workshop to help students recap what they have learnt.

All of our tuition workshops are delivered via Zoom. Students’ camera and microphone access are not required for weekly workshops. In these sessions, students can communicate with their tutor using the chat function.

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TYPES OF 11 PLUS WEEKLY WORKSHOP

📖 11 Plus Comprehension

Comprehension appears in almost all 11+ examinations. In each comprehension workshop, the tutor will walk students through an exam-style text, showing them how to best handle and annotate it. Then they will answer 10 questions, focusing on elements such as the process of elimination, minimising mistakes and literary devices.

✏️ 11 Plus Creative Writing

Finally, our creative writing weekly tuition focuses on using exam-style questions as prompts to help students work together to craft model answers. In each session, students will be given some exam questions and model sentences which could be used to create a high-scoring beginning, middle and end. They will then work on their own answers with the tutor, improving and extending them as they go. 

🧠 11 Plus Verbal Reasoning

Our weekly tuition sessions for verbal reasoning focus on synonyms and antonyms (words with close and opposite meanings). Word meaning plays a huge part in most verbal reasoning exams. In these sessions, we work through several different types of exam-style question, ensuring students understand the technique and thought process behind answering each one.

🗣️ 11 Plus English Vocabulary Workout

Designed to expand vocabulary and knowledge of word meanings, key for both English and verbal reasoning 11+ exams. Even if students know how to solve a type of verbal reasoning question, if they don’t know the vocabulary used in the question, they could still get a wrong answer! Therefore, these sessions aim to broaden each child’s knowledge of English vocabulary as much as possible, using words we’ve previously seen appear in 11+ exams.

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Tutor

All workshops will be delivered by The Exam Coach’s team of tutors. 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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Resources

Class notes are sent out 24 hours after each session. These can either be printed or viewed digitally. The class notes to help consolidate learning and give students an opportunity to recap some of what was covered in the workshop. They also include the answers to a class test which is completed at the end of the workshop for comprehension and verbal reasoning sessions.

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How To Join

After purchase, you will receive a confirmation email. You’ll then automatically receive Zoom invitations on the Monday before each session.

All invitations 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.

Please note, this pass includes all 8 weekly workshops running in January 2025 only. These sessions are non-transferable and non-refundable if you are unable to attend on certain dates. Recordings will not be available as an alternative for missed sessions.