Introduction to 11+, Year 5 – ISEB & Consortium
Date: 30th August 2025 - 2nd September 2025
Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU
Time: 10:00 - 15:00 Daily
Course Fee: £1800
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Students starting year 5, September 2025
This short four-day course is designed to get students up to speed before the beginning of Year 5, a pivotal year for entrance exam preparation.
Most students will begin preparing for the 11+ in earnest from the beginning of Year 5, and this course is designed to help them prepare for the two major online Pretests – the ISEB and the Consortium Exam.
This course will be led by top entrance exam tutors, with years of experience preparing students for the ISEB and Consortium assessments. As well as teaching core rules, they will work to identify topics and subjects to address in the coming months.
The course will cover all four subject areas – English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. Full feedback will be given for each subject.
Course Schedule
- On Day I – we will cover English. We will review different types of texts, multiple choice comprehension, literary analysis and conclude with a short ISEB/Consortium format comprehension exercise, with a composition exercise designed to look ahead to written exams.
- On Day II – we will cover Verbal Reasoning. We will look at both quantitative and vocabulary-based verbal reasoning. We will finish with a short exercise in CEM format, for the ISEB, Consortium exam and St Paul’s Girls’ and City of London Pretest.
- On Day III – we will cover Non-Verbal Reasoning. We will cover both 2D and 3D NVR, including difficult rules such as cube nets, counting cubes, and rotations of cubes. We will finish with a comprehensive NVR assessment.
- On Day IV – we will cover maths. We will look at common entrance exam questions, involving data, geometry, time, money, measures and fractions. WE will finish with an assessment in ISEB/Consortium format, including a maths puzzle section for the Consortium and second stage exams.
“Olly is a highly capable, calm and knowledgeable tutor. Fun and focussed with a great ability to share his passion while imparting genuine exam skills.”
— Parent of 10-year-old
Group Leads
Oliver Ford
Oliver has helped students gain places at schools such as Westminster, St. Paul’s, Highgate, UCS and City of London School Boys, alongside helping them achieve prestigious scholarships at schools like Eton. Oliver has well over 2,000 hours of tutoring experience. His teaching style is patient and encouraging, he makes learning fun and creates dynamic resources which contextualise learning within topics that his students require for exams as well as interest them.