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Category Archives: Top tips
For top grades in school, you’ve got to be in it to win it!
If you’re reading this blog you are more than likely a parent or an educator. Either way your main concern is ensuring that the young people in your care reach their full potential. There are many factors the affect performance … Continue reading
Decoding the Year 1 phonics screening check
The Year 1 phonics screening check (not test!) will be run by all schools beginning in June of 2012 until such times as decoding phonics is no longer fashionable at the Department for Education. The introduction of the screening … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, Key Stage 1, phonics, screening check, Year 1
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Entrance exams: what you need to know (part 3 of an occasional series)
Verbal Reasoning (VR) is a key component in all of Trafford’s state grammar school entrance examinations, bar one (Urmston Grammar). VR tests understanding, and ability to reason through words. Question types include: 1. Identifying opposites, e.g. Choose the word which is most … Continue reading
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Entrance exams: what do I need to know? Part 2: NVR
What do we hear most often from parents who come to us for entrance exam preparation? “I can help my child with everything but Non-verbal Reasoning.” If you feel like this also, read on for how to get results that … Continue reading
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Entrance Exams: what do I need to know? Part 1 of 3
This post aims to give an overview of Trafford’s entrance exam system and give an idea of what you should be doing now if you are the parent of a Year 5 child. There are seven grammar schools in Trafford: … Continue reading
Learning websites we love
Imagine the whole interweb fell carelessly into a black hole in cyberspace, never to be seen again. Which websites would you miss the most? When it comes to education the internet has become pretty indispensable: teachers use it to find … Continue reading
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The Final Countdown: Ten Top Tips for Entrance Exam Success
As the leading entrance exam tutors in Urmston and Stretford (if not the universe!), we at Better Tuition love nothing more than sharing our expertise with parents, so here is plenty. There are less than two weeks before entrance … Continue reading
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Exam Day Nerves: use them, don’t lose them!
This post is especially for young people who are just about to sit entrance exams for Trafford’s Grammar Schools. What’s the worst thing about exams? That horrible, nervous feeling that makes you feel sick and scared and stupid all at once? … Continue reading