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About pjweducation

Peter Williams has lived and taught around the world including Britain, the Middle-East and America where he won an award for his teaching in 2005. He now resides in Greater Manchester where he writes the popular Practise and Pass series of 11 Plus entrance exam books for www.trotman.co.uk and runs PJW Education private tuition to help all students improve.

11 Plus Tricky Questions!

One of the features of 11 Plus and entrance exams is that they often employ tricky or trickily worded questions. Some of these are not overly difficult to work out but they can consume time. Take the question below for … Continue reading

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11 Plus Practice, Mocks and Year 4 Assessments

Wow, what a busy month May is already proving to be! Let’s get straight to business with where we are up to with my 11 Plus/entrance exam students. At this stage we are close to completing all exercises in all … Continue reading

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Key Stage 2 SATs

The timetable for this year’s key stage 2 SATs is below. For those of you needing some extra practice materials, go to my free resources page and print them off! Good luck everyone. Monday 14 May English reading test Tuesday … Continue reading

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11 Plus Tuition – spring update

‘Time is marching on, and so too, are the students that I teach each week. Here at PJW Education, I’m pleased to say that they are all working extremely hard and trying their utmost to get through an awful lot of … Continue reading

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A New Grammar School for Sevenoaks?

Over the past few months I have watched with interest, albeit from afar, at the developments of those campaigning for a grammar school for Sevenoaks in Kent.  I am sure that this story is far from over, but I must … Continue reading

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11 Plus Important Dates

What a busy year! We’ve already had independent schools examinations in January and February, followed by the results and then the allocation of students to schools at the beginning of March! If that wasn’t enough, now would be a good … Continue reading

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Non-Verbal Reasoning for 11 Plus Entrance Exams

Right, Practice is going well with all the students I see on a weekly basis. We’ve completed most fo the level 1 Discover books in the Practise and Pass series and we’re tackling the questions in the second book, paying … Continue reading

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A Word of Warning – Reading Questions Carefully in 11 Plus tests

Once again this week the students I teach have been working diligently on a variety of subjects. As I stated in earlier 11 plus blogs, we are now working our way through all the part 1 sections of the Develop books … Continue reading

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Showing Working in Maths – 11 Plus Blog

As more and more areas which use the 11 Plus entrance examination move to employing multiple choice answer grids, so too more people question me as to why it is important for students to show their working when solving problems on a … Continue reading

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The Importance Of Timing in Non-Verbal Reasoning

This week and over the next 5 weeks too, I will be getting my groups of students to start to feel what it is like to complete non-verbal reasoning exercises under time pressure. For most entrance exams this means 30 … Continue reading

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