Better Tuition’s team of expert teachers can prepare your child for entrance exams.

Each year, Better Tuition runs practice entrance examinations to help Year 5 children prepare for Trafford’s grammar school entrance exams.  Our papers are tailored to the requirements of the school of your choice, including: Urmston Grammar, Stretford Grammar, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Loreto Grammar School, Sale Grammar and St Ambrose College.

We are experts in this area: we have several years of results from each of our papers and, although this is not an exact science, we can compare your child’s results with previous scores and make reasonable predictions about their chances of success in the grammar school entrance exams.  We adhere to the highest professional standards; our papers are exclusive to our centre and your child will not have encountered them previously.

Practice entrance examinations take place at Better Tuition and will be running on the following Sundays in 2016:-

February 28th, 9.30 – 11.30 – introductory practice examination, all formats

April 24th, 9.30 – 12.30 – GL Assessment-style practice examination UPDATE (17/04/2016) – we are also offering CEM Format on this day, due to the announcement of the change of format for Urmston and Stretford Grammar Schools.

May 15th, 9.30 – 12.30 – GL Assessment-style practice examination

May 15th, 1.30 – 4.30 – GL Assessment-style practice examination

May 22nd, 9.30 – 11.30 – CEM-style practice examination

May 22nd, 12.30 – 2.30 – CEM-style practice examination

June 26th, 9.30 – 12.30 – GL Assessment-style practice examination UPDATE (17/04/2016) – we are also offering CEM Format on this day, due to the announcement of the change of format for Urmston and Stretford Grammar Schools.

June 26th, 1.30 – 4.30pm – GL Assessment-style practice examination

July 10th, 9.30 – 12.30 – GL Assessment-style practice examination

July 17th, 9.30 – 11.30 – CEM-style practice examination

July 17th, 12.30 – 2.30 – CEM-style practice examination

August 21st, 10.30am – 12.30pm – CEM-style practice examination

August 21st, 1.30pm – 4.30pm – GL Assessment-style practice examination

September 4th – 9.30 – 11.30 – CEM-style practice examination N.B. BECAUSE OF THE PROXIMITY OF THE EXAMINATION, PARENTS/ CARERS WILL TAKE THE EXAMS AWAY ON THE DAY, TOGETHER WITH THE ANSWERS. PARENTS/ CARERS WILL THEN MARK THIS EXAM. THIS WILL ALLOW CHILDREN TO HAVE MORE IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK.

September 4th – 12.30 – 2.30 – CEM-style practice examination N.B. BECAUSE OF THE PROXIMITY OF THE EXAMINATION, PARENTS/ CARERS WILL TAKE THE EXAMS AWAY ON THE DAY, TOGETHER WITH THE ANSWERS. PARENTS/ CARERS WILL THEN MARK THIS EXAM. THIS WILL ALLOW CHILDREN TO HAVE MORE IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK.

GL Assessment-style examinations are suitable for those Year 5 students planning to sit for  Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, St Ambrose College and Loreto Grammar School. These examinations will consist of three of the following papers: maths, English, verbal and non-verbal reasoning, as well as a creative writing task.

CEM-style examinations are suitable for those Year 5 students intending to sit for Urmston Grammar, Sale Grammar School, Stretford Grammar School and Altrincham Grammar School for Girls.  These will consist of two papers of approximately one hour’s duration that cover a combination of maths, comprehension, verbal and non-verbal reasoning.

Please do not delay in making your booking as places are limited and can fill up rather quickly.

If you want to book a practice entrance exam with us, you can do so online. When you are booking,the system may say there is no availability.  If this happens, choose ‘Practice Entrance Exam’ rather than ‘CEM’ or GL Assessment’. You will be prompted to fill in an online form on which you will specify the format you require.

Papers will be marked and returned to you within a maximum of five working days.