Pass the 7 Plus EXAM with HermES EDuCATION
De-Risking the 7 Plus Exam Lottery
Passing the 7 Plus exam requires parental commitment, child resilience and an education partner with deep knowledge of the exams and how to get children to the required standard. We have an exceptional track record of getting children to pass exams for schools such as Highgate, Westminster Under, City Junior, Alleyn's, DUCKS, UCS, NLCS and others. We have teachers with a proven track record and we supplement this with a comprehensive pedagogy and a programme to support your child. We go beyond simply giving your a capable tutor and instead take you child and you on a comprehensive journey to de-risk the process and ensure the best chance of success.
To book one of our 7 Plus services, please call us to discuss your needs and we can get you booked in.
7 Plus Support TO ENSURE YOUR CHILD PASSES
7 Plus Exam 1-2-1 Tutoring Programme
7 Plus Exam 1-2-1 Tutoring Programme
7 Plus Exam 1-2-1 Tutoring Programme
We offer 7 Plus 1-2-1 classes in term time with experienced teachers. We follow a programme designed to accelerate your child to the high standard needed for the 7 Plus. Our most successful candidates actually start with us in pre-reception but you can start later in Reception, Year One or even Year Two.
Our classes are run on Saturday and Sunday mornings out of our schools in Dulwich and Hampstead. They cost £2,200 a term and see your child have ten 90 minute lessons.
7 Plus Exam Aptitude Testing
7 Plus Exam 1-2-1 Tutoring Programme
7 Plus Exam 1-2-1 Tutoring Programme
Unsure if a particular school is within reach for your child? Unsure what your child's actual potential is? We have access to world leading tests by Cambridge Univerity which give you standardised scores for potential and attainment across Maths and English and can help you with school signposting before you start tutoring.
Our aptitude testing is done at home, online with technical support from the parent. You get a detailed report and a consultation with us. This costs £500.
7 Plus Exam Baseline Testing
7 Plus Exam 1-2-1 Tutoring Programme
7 Plus Exam Baseline Testing
When you start your journey you need to know exactly where your child is vs the 7 Plus exam that they will need to pass. We have baseline tests for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. We use these to drive tailored curriculum acquisition. We actually have a teacher do these test with a child so we can see how they approach the problem as well as seeing the answers that they give.
These tests are done at the weekend at our schools in Dulwich and Hampstead. We then take you through the results and give you an action plan. This costs £500.
7 Plus Mock Exams
7 Plus Exam Baseline Testing
Even the most talented child can be thrown by the pressure of the exam. We offer fully invigilated exams under proper exam conditions. You take the papers which most closely correlate to your chosen schools. We then mark the papers and give you the results.
These run on set dates in the Autumn Term of Year 2. They are run from our schools in Hampstead and Dulwich at the weekend.. This costs £300.
7 Plus Holiday Courses
We find that most children need intensive work to get to the right standard. We offer weekly two hour 1-2-1 intensive courses in the school holidays. We have programmes suitable for all ages. They are critical to getting the curriculum acceleration that is needed.
We offer midweek dates in Easter, Summer and Autumn. These sessions cost £1,200 - £1,500 a week.
7 Plus Mock Interviews
Increasingly schools are weighting their assessment days for their 7 Plus selection process. The interview is the most important part of this. We offer a interview preparation programme to give children the skill needed to excel. This sees us give your child three interviews on three different days with advice and feedback between.
This is for children in Year 2 and are run from our schools in Hampstead and Dulwich at the weekend. The programme costs £500.
PASSING THE English 7 PLUS EXAM
Be both creative and technically correct to pass the English 7 Plus Exam
7 Plus Exam – Comprehension
Comprehensions are a key part of the 7 Plus exam and we find children always need to practice these. In 7 Plus comprehensions children will be expected to read with fluency and read many words by sight. Children are required to extract relevant information from a passage, which could be from a variety of different writing genres. They will need to explain the meaning of words in context and make inferences about the passage and predict wat might happen next.
7 Plus Exam – Creative Writing
For the 7 Plus exam creative writing task children are usually given a prompt and should be able to write a simple but imaginative story with a clear beginning, middle and end. This should include some descriptive and figurative language. They should understand and be able to write in the first or third person in their story.
Though the marking criteria emphasises composition and effect, the children will also be assessed on their spelling and use of simple punctuation. We would expect them to spell many commonly occurring words correctly and have a good sense of spelling rules and patterns.
You should work through the National Curriculum Spelling lists. However, remember your child will need to be one to two years ahead. So by the time children take their 7+ assessments, children should know how to spell all the Year 2 words and all the Year 3 words that you think they will use in their creative writing task, eg. They may well use words such as ‘treasure’ in their story, which falls into the Year 3 list.
PASSING the Maths 7 PLus Exam
Curriculum acceleration, speed and accuracy help pass the Maths 7 Plus exam
The 7 Plus Exam – Maths Syllabus
This varies from school to school and again, as a guide, consider your child should be one to two years ahead of the National Curriculum.
Times Tables
As a parent, the best way to help your child with their 7 Plus Maths exam is to have a daily focus on times tables fluency and accuracy. If you do nothing else, help your child learn their times tables as they come home from school and more. Try to observe how your child best learns their times tables and try to build in multiple ways of learning and reinforcement. For example, some children do well with rote learning, others benefit from the many apps that gamify times tables acquisition, such as Times Tables Rock Stars. Other children enjoy learning songs and memorise tables during long car journeys.
7 Plus Maths Curriculum
The 7 Plus exam always includes a written Maths paper which draws from the entire Year 2 Maths syllabus. Recent years have seen mental maths become an increasing part of second stage interviews. At some competitive schools, there will be elements of the Year 3 syllabus in the Maths paper. Here is a checklist of topics your child needs to have covered:
• Describe and extend number sequences and recognise odd and even numbers
• Explain what each digit in a two-digit number represents and partition such numbers
• Order and compare numbers and position them on a number line using the greater than (>) and less than (<) signs
• Find one half, one quarter and three quarters of shapes and sets of objects
• Derive and recall multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times-tables and the related division facts
• Use written methods and related vocabulary to support multiplication and division
• Use the symbols +, -, x, ÷ and = to record and interpret number sentences involving all four operations; calculate the value of an unknown number in a number sentence
• Visualise and identify common 2-D shapes and 3-D solids; sort, make and describe shapes, referring to their properties
• Use lists, tables and diagrams to sort objects
• Use the units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days) and to identify time intervals; tell the time on analogue and digital clocks
• Estimate, compare and measure lengths, weights and capacities, choosing and using standard units (m, cm, kg, litre)
• Solve word problems involving the four number operations in various contexts
• Present solutions to problems in an organised way, explaining results in pictorial or written.
– Read and write two-digit and three-digit numbers in figures and words
PASSING THE Reasoning 7 PLUS EXAM
Reasoning can be taught and practiced
The 7 Plus Exam Reasoning Syllabus
Reasoning papers are increasingly included in 7 Plus assessments for competitive London day schools. Many schools and parents believe that children have an innate ability in respect of reasoning, but we absolutely do not agree with this. We believe children who have seen and practiced all the types of question, inevitably perform better.We also believe strongly that 7 Plus reasoning test are amongst the most time pressured exams that children sit. Of course, if children are more familiar with these sort of tests and have practiced them, they can complete them more quickly and pick up more marks.
Some schools combine Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning into one Reasoning paper, whereas others include some Verbal Reasoning questions on the end of the English paper and some Non Verbal Reasoning questions on the end of the Maths paper.
Typical questions include:
7 Plus Exam – Verbal Reasoning
• Find the Odd Word Out
• Word Associations
• Similar Meanings and opposite meanings
• Changing a letter to make new words
• Finishing and starting words
• Missing letters and anagrams
7 Plus Exam – Non Verbal Reasoning
• Logical sequences and ordering
• True/False
• Related numbers
• Number sequences
• Nets
• Brain teasers and logic problems
Resources
In terms of resources we recommend the CGP ten minute test books. We comprehensively cover the 7 Plus Verbal and Non verbal Reasoning syllabus in our 1-2-1 lessons and also in our 7 Plus Holiday courses.
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