We had a tutor(group tutor, once a week, started with 1 hour then 1.5hours in the last 6 weeks, with term and summer holiday breaks) for 11+. I am so happy now that the tutoring is over and still now when the exams are over I still feel she was benefited from it. Now I have heard from my friends that they hire tutors for their children for GCSE and A level, all these kids are extremely bright and in top grammar schools in London, they did ed with all 9 for GCSE. And they also said top Indies are worse, they are tutoring earlier. Is this true? Is teaching at these schools are not good enough? Are parents with young children like us are too naive and thought that top school could prepare for top result. For 11+ I could understand because the test is far ahead for state school children who follows national curriculum, they also have never taken any test in their life and state schools dont prepare them. Do you have a tutor for your secondary child then how long do you need it for and what is the usual (London) cost.