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13+ prep covers Common Entrance and senior-school entrance tests for independent schools at age 12/13, including ISEB Common Entrance, ISEB Common Academic Scholarship, and bespoke school papers (Eton, Westminster, Winchester, St Paul's and others use their own). Subject coverage is broader than 11+ — full Common Entrance includes English, maths and science as core, plus humanities, languages and Latin/Greek for scholarship candidates. Tutoring helps most with the breadth of preparation, with specific past-paper familiarity for the target school, and with the interview prep that scholarship rounds typically include. Tutor familiarity with the specific school's papers is decisive.

The 11+ is the entrance test for selective state grammar schools and many independent senior schools, sat in Year 6 (some independents sit it earlier). Tests vary by region: Kent, Bucks, Birmingham, Trafford, Lincolnshire, the Wirral and others differ on format and content, with GL Assessment, formerly CEM, ISEB Common Pre-Test, and bespoke school papers all in use. Most tests cover English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning in some combination. The verbal/non-verbal reasoning is the unfamiliar part — schools don't teach it. Tutoring helps most with format-specific past-paper practice; match the tutor to the actual test the child will sit.

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