13 Plus Exam Preparation
Maths
From the ISEB Common Entrance Maths syllabus.
- Non-calculator, calculator and mental arithmetic paper practice
- Foundation, Core and Additional level preparation
- Number: place value, ordering, rounding, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, factors, multiples and prime factorisation
- Algebra: expressions, equations, inequalities, sequences, expansion, factorisation and substitution
- Ratio, proportion, scaling, maps and diagrams
- Geometry and measures: angles, shapes, perimeter, area, volume, transformations, coordinates, units, time, speed and distance
- Statistics and probability: averages, range and probability basics
English reading and writing
Based on ISEB Common Entrance English expectations.
- Reading and writing paper preparation
- Foundation and Core level practice
- Prose, poetry, drama and unseen passage comprehension
- Literal understanding, inference, summarising and interpretation
- Language analysis including grammar, syntax, punctuation and literary devices
- Vocabulary in context and shades of meaning
- Narrative, descriptive, persuasive, argumentative, letter, report and essay writing
- Grammar, punctuation, spelling, register and tone
Verbal Reasoning
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Analogies
- Word codes and letter series
- Following instructions and word puzzles
- Cloze tests
Non-Verbal Reasoning
- Pattern recognition and shape series
- Matrices of shapes
- Matching and odd one out
- Rotations, reflections and transformations
- Mirror images