Weekly Girls’ Year 6, Reasoning & Exam Group
Date: 12th September 2025 - 17th October 2025
Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Course Fee: £150 per week
Book a placeCourse Introduction
This weekly course is designed to help students prepare for the challenging non-verbal and verbal-reasoning sections of the ISEB and Consortium exams, which comprise 50% and 40% of marks available respectively. The ISEB and Consortium now both feature new and challenging question types – spatial reasoning such as cube nets, rotations of cuboids, assembling cubes and figure analysis (hole punching) – and cloze verbal reasoning such as shuffled sentences, close synonyms and antonyms and close sentence completion. It is vital to get used to these different question types, which are not fully covered by online testing platforms.
Course Schedule
The course will teach a different verbal and non-verbal reasoning rule each week, and will aim to complete the entire syllabus of verbal and non-verbal reasoning lessons before assessment.
As well as teaching every VR and NVR rule which will be tested in the entrance exams, the sessions will be fun and engaging
“My daughter has been attending Jacob’s weekly reasoning groups alongside other 11+ peers. She looks forward to the group sessions each week, she is motivated and has made friends. We have found that with a combination of Jacob’s teaching and a group environment her engagement with 11+ preparation has significantly increased.”
— Parent of year 6 student
Group Leads
Jacob Shephard
The course will be led by Jacob Shephard. Jacob is a tutor and full-time Education and Exams Advisor who works exclusively with Winterwood. He has been tutoring in London for over a decade, specialising in English, maths and reasoning tuition for entrance exams in particular. Jacob is a friendly and engaging tutor, and is keen to make sure his students are regularly making progress and focusing on their work.