11+ Mock Exams for Kendrick GL-style 11+ candidates

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**There have been some changes to the Kendrick 11+ test for 2023 so please read the below information carefully.**
It is not yet known whether Kendrick and the Slough Consortium will continue to use the same test provider and format so, for Slough Consortium 11+ Mock Exams, please refer to our separate page here.

In 2023, SDE’s 11+ Mock Exams for Kendrick Candidates are taking place in the following locations:

• Earley Crescent Resource Centre, Warbler Drive, Reading, RG6 4HB; and
• The Forest School, Robin Hood Lane, Winnersh, RG41 5NE

The test papers for these Sessions will be written by Susan Daughtrey Education to help students who are preparing to write the new Kendrick 11+ tests being used in 2023.

A note on the new Kendrick 11+ tests for 2023 (for admission Sept 2024)

It was announced earlier this year that CEM, who provided the Berkshire 11+ between 2014 and 2022, will no longer be providing paper-based tests from 2023. Kendrick School have confirmed they will be using GL as their new test provider but have not released any further information about the content or format of the new tests.

SDE have decided to open booking for their 2023 11+ Mock Exams for Kendrick 11+ candidates, on the basis that we are highly likely to be well placed to respond to the new Kendrick 11+ test requirements whatever they may be, already successfully running GL-style Mock Exams in several other areas.

Can I combine these Mock Exams with other Mock Exams run at other venues?

Until the new format for the 2023 11+ tests is announced, we strongly discourage booking Mock Exams of different types with the same Session letter. For example, we would advise against booking both Session A for Kendrick candidates and Session A for Buckinghamshire or Slough candidates. Instead, we would suggest booking one Session A, and one of our other Session letters, B-G.

The reason for this is that, depending on the format of the new Kendrick 11+ test and when this information is released, it is possible SDE will draw questions from one of our existing sets of well-established GL-style Mock Exams or may reuse test papers currently elsewhere in the event Kendrick picks up an identical exam format. Booking different Session letters across all of our Mock Exam styles will guarantee your child does not see the same questions twice.

How many Sessions do you offer?

There are seven Sessions: Sessions A – G.

The test papers at each Session are unique (i.e. no repeat questions).

Most parents book all seven Sessions and use the SDE 11+ Mock Exams as part of their child’s final preparation for the 11+ exam.

What is the agenda for each Session?

At each Session we will emulate, as far as reasonably practicable, your child’s most likely experience on the day of the real Kendrick 11+ tests. We will confirm the structure of each Session once the format for the 2023 tests has been released.

What is Susan Daughtrey 11+ Dynamic Video Tuition®?

All SDE 2023 GL-style 11+ Mock Exams include the unique and innovative Susan Daughtrey 11+ Dynamic Video Tuition® service as standard.

Susan Daughtrey 11+ Dynamic Video Tuition® is a significant video production and IT project, involving the creation of more than 3000 short video tutorials, each typically 1-4 minutes in length, together with an online video streaming platform, so the video tutorials can be watched by you and your child at home.  We have created a video tutorial for every question on our series of seven Kendrick GL-style 11+ Mock Exams (as well as many of our other exam formats used in other areas).

Susan Daughtrey 11+ Dynamic Video Tuition® is designed to target your child’s individual learning needs.  For each question your child answers incorrectly on the tests our bespoke online software (accessed via your secure parent login to the SDE website) will provide you with access to:

• Your child’s wrong answer selection;
• A link to a short video tutorial, devised and narrated by Susan Daughtrey M.Ed, which can be streamed from home and which includes the following:
  • The test question number, test question and multiple-choice answer options that appeared on the question paper;
  • Where relevant (e.g for VR questions), an explanation of the technique or method that Susan Daughtrey recommends your child uses to answer the question;
  • Where relevant (e.g for Maths questions), working out is shown on screen in a step-by-step fashion, with Susan Daughtrey explaining the process she recommends your child should follow to answer the question correctly; and
  • Finally, the correct answer is shown on screen.

You can pause, rewind and re-watch the video tutorials provided as part of the SDE 11+ Mock Exam feedback as many times as you like, until the 11+ exams in September 2023.

Susan Daughtrey 11+ Dynamic Video Tuition® has been devised with the specific objectives of giving your child the opportunity to: (a) learn from their mistakes; and (b) improve future exam performance.  This is a unique and innovative resource, which responds to your child’s individual learning requirements by identifying only the questions your child answered incorrectly on the test papers and addressing those wrongly answered questions through the deployment of a video tutorial.

This is simply a fantastic way to revise with your child and was described by one very satisfied parent, as a “game-changer”.

What other feedback can I expect after each Session?

Feedback is provided via a secure parent login to the SDE website.

This feedback includes (at a minimum):

• A Record Table™ which shows your child’s score in each element of the test papers, a total score for each test and a combined score for the two tests. Next to your child’s scores, we also provide the group average score to help you identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, relative to the other candidates (there are usually many other students to compare your child’s results to as the Sessions are extremely popular);
• Group List of Scores – this list contains the anonymised scores of the students attending the 11+ Mock Exam Session on the same weekend and usually at the same venue as your child (giving you the most “like-for-like” comparison available as the test papers were written in the same circumstances); and
• Access to the unique and innovative Susan Daughtrey 11+ Dynamic Video Tuition® service detailed above, so you can see exactly which questions your child answered incorrectly and your child has the benefit of Susan Daughtrey’s explanation of how best to answer the question.

A huge amount of work goes into producing high quality 11+ Mock Exam Papers so please be aware that, in order to protect our intellectual property and to ensure each paper is previously unseen by the students attending the Session, we do not release full Mock Exam papers.

Cost

1 Session: £80
2 Sessions: £150 (£75 each, save £10)
3 Sessions: £210 (£70 each, save £30)
4 Sessions: £260 (£65 each, save £60)
5 Sessions: £300 (£60 each, save £100)
More than 5 Sessions: £60 each

To take advantage of the discounted rates on multiple exam bookings, you must book all tests for the same child and as a single Order.

You can combine these tests with Mock Exams that we run directly at other venues. Simply add these tests to your Cart and continue shopping for SDE 11+ Mock Exam in other areas.

Terms and Conditions

All SDE 11+ Mock Exam Sessions are subject to our mock exam terms and conditions which you can view on the booking page.

Change of date / time / venue and cancellation

You can make changes to your booking free of charge by contacting the SDE office, at least 72 hours before the Mock Exam takes place.

If you cancel your booking, we will apply a cancellation charge of £20 to help cover our card processing fees and administration costs. Our fees will also be recalculated if you are cancelling part of a booking (e.g one test in a multiple booking). Please refer to our Terms and Conditions for full details and worked examples.

Confirmation

Once you have paid for the Session(s), our system will automatically send you a Receipt and a Booking Confirmation (two separate emails).

How to book

• Review the timetable and click ‘Book Now’;
• Complete the simple Registration Form; and
• Pay for your Session(s) using a credit or debit card.