Practice Entrance Exams, Masterclasses and Summer School 2020

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Better Tuition is offering more entrance exam services than ever before in 2020. Our services are open to everyone: you may choose to attend one practice entrance exam, for example, or one masterclass, or to attend summer school lessons over the long school break. You may like to download and print our entrance exam services schedule 2020.

Practice Entrance Exams

Our introductory entrance exam takes place on 1st March. This exam is suitable for Year 5 children studying for any Trafford entrance exam. Book our introductory entrance exam now:</h3>

Our further practice exam dates are as follows:

CEM-style (Urmston, Stretford, Sale Grammar and Altrincham Grammar School for Girls):

 

These exams will take place from 9.30 – 11.30 am on the following dates:

5th April
10th May
14th June
12th July
16th August

There will be two further dates, one around one week before the official examination and one during the summer holidays. Book your CEM-style examination here:</h3>

GL-style (Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Loreto and St Ambrose):

These exams will take place from 9.00 – 11.45 am on the following dates:

17th May
5th July
9th August

There will be one further examination which will take place on a Sunday at the beginning of September, date TBA. Book your GL-style examination here:</h3>
All practice exams cost £45, with a £5 discount for current customers. You can read more about our practice exams here.

Masterclasses

These cost £55 and will run on several dates during the Easter holidays and the long summer break on the following dates:

Masterclass

Focus

Date

SUITABLE FOR

EXAM TECHNIQUE MASTERY Timings, techniques and dealing with nerves Thursday, 23rd July (am)
& Thursday, 20th August (pm)
CEM & GL
MATHS A Core Skills – Add, Subtract, Divide and Multiply Tuesday, 31st March (am) CEM & GL
MATHS B Number Thursday, 23rd July (pm) CEM & GL
MATHS C Handling Data Thursday, 6th August (am) CEM & GL
MATHS D Geometry Thursday, 13th August (am) CEM & GL
MATHS E Algebra Thursday, 20th August (am) CEM & GL
NVR A Core Skills – The Eight NVR Question Types Monday, 30th March  (am)
NVR B Reflection and Rotation Thursday, 30th July (am) CEM & GL
NVR C Codes and Analogies Thursday, 6th August (pm) CEM & GL
VR A Core Skills – Vocabulary and Comprehension, familiarisation with different question types.  

Monday, 30th March  (pm)

VR B Comprehension and Cloze Thursday, 30th July (pm) CEM, Loreto & Ambrose
VR C Vocabulary Thursday, 13th August (pm) CEM ONLY

You can read more about our masterclasses here. Book your masterclass now:

Summer School 2020

Summer School will run on the following dates and times from Tuesday, 21st July until Tuesday, 1st September (inc):

Tuesdays, from 21st July                     Wednesdays, from 22nd July

Session 1: 10:00am – 11:15am               Session 1: 10:00am – 11:15am                                                                                                         Session 2: 11:30am – 12:45pm
Session 2: 4:00pm – 5:15pm                   Session 3: 4:00pm – 5:15pm
Session 3: 5:30pm – 6:45pm                   Session 4: 5:30pm – 6:45pm

We do not accept bookings for summer school before June. This ensures that those parents who work irregular hours are not disadvantaged.

Summer School lessons cost the usual £28.

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