8+ English Pack 4

Preparation is the key to success in 8+ entrance exams, and these papers provide the ideal foundation for regular, structured practice. Carefully designed to mirror the question types, format and difficulty of leading independent schools’ assessments, they will ensure your child is familiar with what they will face on exam day, boosting their confidence so they can perform to the best of their ability.

• Four full-length 8+ English practice tests with answers
  Each test assesses children’s skills through authentic comprehension and composition tasks. The answers and step-by-step video explanations help children to understand their mistakes, learn from them and avoid them in their actual exam. 
• Written by assessment experts
  The papers have been written by 8+ assessment experts, ensuring they are appropriately challenging, accurate and effective. 
• Covers full examination syllabus
  The tests provide complete coverage of the comprehension and composition skills tested in 8+ assessments. A range of authentic, exam-style questions are included, such as those requiring children to retrieve information from a text, infer meaning by ‘reading between the lines’, understand the meaning of words and phrases, use punctuation accurately, express their own ideas about something they have read and write or carry on a story in their own words.  
• Builds confidence and improves exam performance
  By sitting these papers under timed conditions, children will become familiar with what will be expected of them on exam day, resulting in increased confidence and improved performance.
  
  

Give your child the best possible chance of success with realistic English practice, helping them build the skills and confidence they need to excel in their 8+ exam.

• Each paper is 45 or 50 minutes long and worth a total of 50 marks.
• The pack includes two papers in Standard Format, requiring full written answers, and two papers in Multiple-Choice format, requiring children to select the correct answers from the options given. 
• The comprehension papers test children’s understanding of a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
• The composition papers include a mixture of continuation, story-writing, diary-writing and letter-writing tasks.