Has anyone taught the 11+ to their own child?

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Hi, my DD is about to go into year 5 and take the 11+ a year in September. We had booked a tutor who has had to cancel for health reasons so it looks like I will be preparing her myself.

Not sure what the tutors would have done other than practice papers. Has anyone tutored their child - how often, for how long each session and did you use internet sites or just books of papers?

Or, if you have used external tutors for your child do you know how they structured their sessions?

I'm with Wormshuffler and CecilyP on this one. 14 weeks about right. Ds had his exam end of september and we started practice papers just before end of summer term and did 12 papers in total through until the exam. The scores had plateaued out by the time he reached the last 3 papers so they were just to remind him what he was doing in the last few weeks before the exam. Got in safely and doing very well in year 8 at the grammar school now.

Dd just about to start same schedule for her exam in september. Keeping fingers crossed. Those first few papers are a bit terrifying - Ds and now dd got only 50% right at first, but it quickly goes up once you have gone through the ones they didn't get right, so they understand how to approach them. I found some of the books on how to do them useful, but don't go overboard with these books or you just end up terrifying yourself with the detail on every type of question. Also we found for ds that he hadn't covered all the maths yet as some questions encompass year 6 work, so worth maybe getting some maths tutoring just for those few topics only. We should be all right for dd as she is just has been working a year ahead in maths so should have covered it all.

Good luck