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Salisbury 11+ Mock Exams

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What to expect

What are the Mocks?

Main Mock Exam

We have four main mock exams (A, B, C, D). Each exam will include an English paper, a Maths paper, a Verbal Reasoning paper and a Non-Verbal Reasoning paper for those who need it (boys preparing for the Bishop’s 11+ or children sitting exams elsewhere). There are several opportunities to sit each exam.


Two-Paper Exam

This is for the boys preparing for the Bishop’s 11+. It is much shorter than our main mocks (in line with the real Bishop’s 11+). We use the two-paper exam at the end of the summer so the boys have practice at the format but use the main mocks for the boys beforehand because they give us double the feedback about what needs fixing.

Nervous Exam

For those children who can’t bring themselves to enter an exam room. This as a stepping-stone and teaches the children all about exams in the security of their own homes so that they can enter a real exam room with more confidence. Some children the Nervous Exam for convenience rather than nerves.



What to expect from each exam

The exams are of the same level of difficulty: that of the 11+.

No one expects the children to do well in the first exam, its purpose is to give the children an idea of what they are preparing for and why.

Until their first mock the whole experience of 11+ preparation is rather like playing your first ever football match in thick fog, where you can neither see the goals, your team mates or the opposition, or even know that they exist. If you are going to have a “car-crash”, do it as far away from the actual 11+ as possible and practise enough so that you can look back on these mistakes and laugh.

Nine-year-olds make the mistakes of nine-year-olds: not writing their name, crying, forgetting pencils, writing their answers in the wrong place, cheating, chatting….the list is almost endless.

Remember that the children will experience the effects of the first exam whether they sit it in January or August.

What we want to achieve through these exams is a sense of familiarity with the exam process so they can just concentrate on the questions. Try to resist the temptation to keep changing things, this only leads to increased stress and an expectation of stress. We want the children's first experiences of formal exams to be calm.

You don’t fatten a pig by constantly weighing it. Four exams are enough to identify problem areas; do more if you fancy or feel there's a need. The rest of your time should be spent playing and fixing the problems.

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Your Mock Exam Report

 

Hitler and his team run an 11+ Mock Exam

Mrs Sock trains to be an exam invigilator