Every letter is already on the page
Nothing is hidden in an anagram question — the letters have only been shuffled. Cover, guess, sort, check, and pull the ending out before you build the front.
Spelling
4 posts on this. Written by Mat and Alicia, who prepare pupils for the Buckinghamshire Transfer Test every week in Winslow.
The front leaves it alone, the end does not
A prefix never changes the root word. A suffix usually does. One difference decides most of these questions, and the prefix that changes shape catches the rest.
Which rule am I in? spelling patterns
By Year 5 the difficulty is not knowing the rules but knowing which one applies. Four questions in a fixed order, and the plurals that have to be learnt.
Sound cannot decide it: homophones
Words that sound identical and are spelled differently. Why the ear is the wrong tool, and the handful of pairs the 11+ returns to.