Our fully qualified teachers all work within the school system and know how prepare children for success.
We completely understand that the 11 Plus exam is highly competitive and can be a stressful experience for you and your child.
Our professional tutors know exactly how to ensure your child is thoroughly prepared to excel in mathematics, English and reasoning skills.
Our tutors know how to quickly identify gaps in your child’s learning and then target those areas!
11 Plus resources
Last year, 11 Plus Tutor helped their students pass the plus exams for their chosen schools in London and the home counties. Amongst other schools, our students gained places at: Westminster School, City of London School, QE Boys, North London Collegiate, Kings, St Pauls and Sevenoaks
Our tutors ensure that they quickly form a connection with your child and will inspire your child to want to learn.
Schools our students gained places at this year.
- Westminster
- Sevenoaks School
- Haberdashers’ Aske’s School
- St Paul’s
- Brighton College
- Eton College
- Wellington School
- King’s College
- Benenden School
- City of London School
- Dulwich Prep London
- Francis Holland School
- Godolphin & Latymer
- Hampton School
- Woldingham
- Harrow School
- North London Collegiate School
- Kings London
- The Harrodian School
- Highgate School
- Tonbridge
- Notre Dame
- Kingston Grammar School
- Lady Eleanor Holles School
- Merchant Taylor’s School
- Putney High School
- Watford Grammar School
- Reeds School
- Marlborough
- Wimbledon High School
- Doctor Challoner’s Grammar School
Free ‘Future School Advice’ Consultation.
We offer advice on which schools to apply to:
Meet for a free one-on-one consultation with our senior school leader.
Education Assessment and School Search Assessment
We provide a 360 degree assessment of your child before they start preparing for the 11 plus. The assessment, carried out by a school leader, will give you a crystal clear picture of where your child sits academically in relation to his or her peers, and what the most suitable schools to target are.
We provide a confidential, independent assessment of your child’s ability in English, Maths, Verbal and non Verbal reasoning, plus help with interview confidence for Pre tests, 7, 8, 11 and 13 Plus.
To arrange expert tuition by a fully qualified teacher, please contact us.
Why Be My Tutor for the 11 plus?
As parents, we naturally want the best for our children and this can make the whole process of ‘pass or fail’ difficult to handle!
Be My Tutor’s team of fully qualified teachers will help to alleviate the anxiety surrounding these exams. Our positive teaching and coaching methods place wellbeing at the very core of every minute of every lesson. We know that a child who feels energised, relaxed and positive is a child who succeeds!
Crucially, our 11 Plus tutors will very quicky start a dialogue with you about your child’s progess: it is this open and constructive communication between tutor, child and parent that will lead to incredible results!
Using state-of the-art resources and technology to enhance the learning experience, our 11 plus tutors will clarify and concepts that have previously left your child feeling confused or ashamed. We quickly find that the children who work with us grow in confidence and perform better at school.
If you think your child may need extra help with 7+ or 11+ exams, and you would like to book an hour with a Be My Tutor, please get in touch!
Five top tips for 11 plus exam success
Written by Adam, a senior school leader and fully qualified teacher for over 20 years.
- Start preparation early
Parents often ask us when they should start to prepare more intensively for the 11 Plus. Our advice is always to start early- in Year 4 is ideal. As the adage goes: ‘slow and steady wins the race!’.
It is so important that the tutor is able to ensure lessons are pitches at the child’s current level and that, step-by-step, the student is able to work towards mastery of all areas of mathematics and English that are required to thrive in the 11 Plus.
- Focus all energies on the gaps in your child’s learning
If your child repeatedly scores almost top marks in tests, it means that most of this practice has little or no use: nothing is being learnt! Likewise, if your child is completing exercises that are a constant struggle and is obtaining very low marks, this can crush confidence and will actually have the opposite effect to the desired academic improvements.
It is crucial that the work given to the child hits what we at Be My Tutor call ‘the sweet spot’. By this we mean that the maths or English exercises constantly stretch the child and encourage the child to take risks and aim high.
Most importantly, we will identify the weaker areas, and focus on improving those. It could be that your child lacks confidence with fractions and so is unable to make the leap to decimals and percentages; it could be that there is a simple missing step in written calculations. Whatever the gap in knowledge and understanding, our 11 Plus tutors will soon find it and will act swiftly to provide clarity and enlightened understanding! - Get your child invested in the 11 Plus process-the child has to ‘buy into it’ and be up for the challenge
Parents will always want the very best for their children. Yes we must resist the urge to spoon-feed them. When all is said and done, it is the child who will sit the exams independently. As such, what we must aim for it to nurture the child towards becoming an independent learner.
If a child is not invested in the process, if the child does not want to learn and has not had an inner desire to achieve ignited, then all our efforts could be fruitless. This is why our 11 Plus tutors focus just as much on coaching the child and encouraging independent learning, as they do on ensuring that academic expectations are kept high. Our teachers get to know how each child learns best.
Keep talking to your child about the process. Let them know that this is an exciting challenge and that this is their chance to shine. - It is NOT about ‘pass’ or ‘fail’
It is so important that you praise the effort and not the results from the very first day you embark on the 11 Plus journey with your child.
For most children, this will be the first time they have ever been ‘judges’ by an external examiner in any meaningful way. It is absolutely crucial that it is made clear from the onset that the only thing that counts is for your child to give one hundred percent to this challenge. Keep reminding them that, in life, if we meet challenges head-on, then great things can and will happen.
At all costs, avoid setting the exams up as a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’. If the child feels upbeat, energised and at ease with the process, the child will thrive! - Make sure your child has a mixed academic diet
There are thousands of incredible interactive resources on the market to help keep learning enthralling and challenging. We have written a blog all about this (LINK TO BLOG). Fun websites like Quizlet or Mathletics can also be useful, and are easily adaptable for revision purposes.
We had a great experience with two fantastic tutors for Maths (Philip) and English (Sophie). They turned a potentially very difficult few months of home schooling on its head. I genuinely feel that, with only one or two sessions a week in each subject, our son (year4) learnt more than he would have in a full term at school. Philip and Sophie built a great rapport with our son and made the sessions really enjoyable. I would thoroughly recommend.
I worked with Adam for 14 years. His team of tutors are experts in their field and highly experienced teachers. Adam and his team inspire children and help them to believe in themselves. I have seen countless pupils transformed by their inspired teaching.
The Be My Tutor teachers are extremely knowledgeable and cover all areas thoroughly in maths. They elaborate and fully explain any question the child might have, ensuring that they understand what method to use and what the question is asking. Furthermore, the tutors are patient , professional and show great communication skills, making their teaching simple and effective. My child has improved in a vast array of topics in maths, ever since she started tutoring with them, and continues to consolidate and strengthen her skills. The tutors are exceptional and I would highly recommend them.
