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Paper 1 counts for half your child's score, so half the course is paper 1: reading, spot-the-mistake English, hidden words, word pairs and letter codes.

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The Bucks 11+ course

The Bucks 11+ course

Short lessons for the Bucks 11+, one idea at a time, across English, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning, Non Verbal Reasoning and Spatial Reasoning. Your first lesson is free, no account needed.

42 Lessons15 Topics
  1. Mia

    This is where the course starts. Short steps, and I'll be here for each one.

    Read a Bucks story like a detectiveFree
  2. Read an information text: how a lock works
  3. Find a tiny clue
  1. Let the sentence tell you the meaning
  2. One word, several meanings
  3. Let the sentence help
  1. Spot the line with the mistake: punctuation
  2. Spot the line with the mistake: grammar
  3. Give a sentence its stops
  4. Spot the line with the mistake: spelling
  1. Fractions of amounts and percentages
  2. Fractions of what is left
  3. Equal shares, small steps
  1. Units, time and scales
  2. Same units, several steps
  3. Centimetres join metres
  1. Read the key, then the question
  2. Totals behind averages
  3. Read the right row
  1. Multi-step problems, one step at a time
  2. Two prices, one total
  3. Cost first, change next
  1. Pick one word from each group
  2. Keep the same link
  1. Find the word hiding across two words
  2. One letter, four words
  3. The missing letter
  1. Crack letter codes and sequencesFree
  2. Two threads in a code
  3. One letter along
  1. Speed round: series
  2. Two changes at once
  3. What changes next?
  1. Speed round: odd one out
  2. Count what belongs together
  1. Speed round: turns, flips and nets
  2. Meet the mirror
  1. Fold nets and track moves in your head
  2. Follow one square
  1. Speed round: shape codes
  2. Three features, three letters
  3. Crack a picture code

Lessons use our own original questions, written to the published test areas. They are practice, not an official paper or a prediction of a result.

Read a Bucks story like a detective

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