Cost of 11plus tuition London

For top-level people in Central London, then you are looking at £50-100 per hour. Similar fees for interview prep. Yes, you can get some A-level kid for much cheaper, but do you really want to bet your DC's 11+ success on a teenager that you barely know?

Nothing really, DS went to a prep school. From the end of year 5, DS read the newspaper and listened to Radio 4 plus a bit of Atom premium and past papers from every school in the top 50, irrespective of whether he was trying for them. I told him to get on with it and prepare himself as the exam is incidental but preparation is key. He had no tutor. He also did all the challenges/homework extensions. He performed well.

A friend of mine does it - he’s about £60 and hour and is a good all-rounder up to a-level (apart from languages). He is very good and brilliant at advising the kids/being a mentor.

We had a Latin tutor for GCSE and he was £35

Through an agency costs more (obv)

£50 per hour minimum here - south east but not London for someone who is good. You can get cheaper but they tend to be inexperienced.

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This isn't what you asked, but my experience of grammar school was that the studwnts who had been extensively tutored just to get them through the door.l really struggled with the rest of the curriculum. The point of the grammar school system is to give all students the chance to thrive in an environment that plays to their strengths. There's no shame in not going to a grammar school, and the cost in terms of children's mental health of never quite measuring up to their peers, always being at the bottom of the class, struggling to follow the lessons etc can be really significant. Those same students could be thriving in a secondary school.

I shudder when I recall the 11plus preparation years. You have my sympathies. In the end I self tutored because it was like trying to get info out of a Mafia boss- no one would share tutor details.

Word of mouth is good, and booking a year before you want to start tutoring should give you access to the better ones.

Most expensive isn’t always best. Most super selective state grammars, and popular independent day schools that take a good proportion of local people, have a number of very experienced and successful tutors who have been prepping kids for those specific exams for many many years. They don’t always charge the top rates, but they probably won’t be cheap.

Get to know a few parents in a couple or three years ahead of your kid and ask for recommendations. Parents can be rather tight-lipped about top tutors but are often more open when they are past that phase. If you know people with kids in the selective school who got in couple of years ago, they will often know the ‘known’ tutors who are still working. They can also tell you the going local rates.

We are just inside London boroughs and paid £40 per week 1-2-1 4 years ago. That was for a top local tutor who had been a primary school teacher and was a parent of 3 kids who had gone to the local selective school and who tutored 5 kids a year for some pin money, but wasn’t in it for big bucks. She didn’t tutor during most holidays, except the holiday just before the exam, and if there was an odd slot you couldn’t do, she wouldn’t charge. She was well known locally, especially by the local state school whose parents used her to try to even-up the ground with the local prep school applicants. She was excellent in giving parents an initial assessment for £50 and telling them if someone really looked like they had no real hope, and was succcessul in getting lots of scholarships. It was all word of mouth and she would take your name from Christmas of Yr4 onwards, and would confirm a place and tutor from January of Yr5, after the previous cohort had sat their exams. She was never willing to tutor anyone for more than a year.

Definitley ask around locally for names and prices. If you know any local teachers as friends, ask them too - they often know people who do it.

Also know that with some time and dedication and purchase of some books, most parents who have a reasonable level of education themselves can do it.

Like everything in life, there are tutors and then there are tutors. Some will charge low, some will charge high. Some will have experience, some will have none.

It's not really a one size fits all. This a sliding scale that has a number of different inputs - and that affects the output - which is the price.

You'll get an A-level student just out of college charging £20. Then you'll get an oxbridge graduate with two masters and a track record of getting kids into westminster, st pauls, kings etc over the last decade with their finger on the pulse and they'll be charging £150+

We used to pay £56 an hour (about five years ago). SW London, one to one lesson, in person.

£50 per hour one to one lesson online

£35 per hour, 1 hr per week