We provide a diverse range of high-quality educational resources tailored to students' needs. Specialising in materials for the 11 plus exam, our platform offers a comprehensive selection of study revision notes, practice papers, and learning materials. Magical Minds Learning is dedicated to providing accessible, quality educational tools to everyone.
We provide a diverse range of high-quality educational resources tailored to students' needs. Specialising in materials for the 11 plus exam, our platform offers a comprehensive selection of study revision notes, practice papers, and learning materials. Magical Minds Learning is dedicated to providing accessible, quality educational tools to everyone.
2024 11+ CEM Practice Paper
This resource contains one practice paper (mock style) out of a five part series. These exam styled papers are specifically designed for the 11 Plus in 2024, useful for all exam boards.
GCSE AQA English Literature revision guide for “Romeo and Juliet.” Designed to help students achieve top grades, this resource offers in-depth insights into the play’s key themes, characters, quotations and model essays
Key Features:
Thematic Analysis: Detailed exploration of central themes such as love, fate, conflict, and youth versus age.
Character Profiles: In-depth analysis of main characters with key quotations and interpretations.
Quotations and Analysis: Essential quotations with detailed explanations to support your essays.
Model Essay Paragraphs: Examples of high-quality paragraphs and full essays for different themes, showcasing how to integrate textual evidence and context.
Contextual Information (AO3): Insight into the historical and cultural background of Shakespeare’s time integrated into essay responses.
Practice Essay Questions: A range of questions designed to test your knowledge and analytical skills with model answers
Who is this guide for?
GCSE AQA English Literature Students: Tailored for the AQA syllabus, covering all necessary content for exam success.
Teachers: A valuable resource for lesson planning and providing high-quality revision materials.
Parents: Support your child’s revision with clear, structured content.
Prepare confidently and excel in your GCSE English Literature exams with our “Romeo and Juliet” revision guide.
This resource contains paper 1, a realistic CEM-style 11 plus practice paper, containing mixed questions on maths, including numerical reasoning and spatial skills, verbal reasoning and comprehension. Have used extensively with my tutees in preparing for the CEM and GL tests.
Also contains angles and BIDMAS revision sheets.
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Magical Minds' 11+ Practice Papers for the CEM Test. This resource contains a realistic CEM-style 11 Plus practice paper - each containing mixed questions on Maths, including Numerical Reasoning and spatial, Verbal Reasoning and Comprehension. Helps boost confidence, building skills and establishing success. New- Contains angles recap at end
KS2 SATs SPaG Test
This forty five minute test is for the national curriculum tests. Testing the student on spelling, punctuation and grammar, it will be really useful to grasp new concepts.
Contains detailed teacher notes and answers.
Y6 SATS SPaG: This resource includes three lesson plans and powerpoints to prepare students for the SPaG assessments. Organised by topic, there are quizzes, detailed responses, homework prompts, etc… to help pupils get SATS ready and boost results instantly. You can use these tools nearer to the exam, for last minute cramming, or it can be used all year round.
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11 Plus Interview Guide
I’m so nervous! What if I don’t know what to say? What if the interviewer doesn’t like me? We all come across these questions at some point, because we are all nervous! It is absolutely normal to feel apprehensive about an interview, that’s why we are here to help.
This guide includes:
Introduction to what interviews are
What to do before the interview
Interview questions: 30+
What to do after the interview
Why not to worry about an interview
What the structure usually looks like in your interview
Do you want a comprehensive day by day plan for your child to complete over the summer holidays, we have just the course for you: 11 Plus 4 Week Summer Course
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New 11 Plus Test 6: Ages 10-11
This resource contains paper 8, a realistic CEM-style 11 plus practice paper, containing mixed questions on maths, including numerical reasoning and spatial skills, verbal reasoning and comprehension. Have used extensively with my tutees in preparing for the CEM and GL tests.
This resource is part of practice papers pack 5: 11 Plus Practice Papers Pack 5
11 plus past papers
11 plus mock papers
11 plus practice papers
Creative Writing Bundle
Whether you need to improve your writing skills for an exam or just for fun, these resources will step you through a variety of styles of writing, designed for the 11 plus entrance exams. However, they can also successfully be used for year six students and in preparation for SATs.
This bundle contains three creative writing books:
Creative writing guide 1
Creative writing guide 2 and book 2
22 Creative writing prompts with tips and tricks.
Balanced Arguments
Includes:
Introductory powerpoint to balanced arguments (structure, examples, what they are, etc…)
Vocabulary to use in each powerpoint
Word mats (vocabulary)
11 Plus Vocabulary in Context
This set of resources contains a highly visual guide to understand what the term ‘vocabulary in context’ really means, and the four main ways to find out what a word means in the context when unsure.
Also includes worksheets (matching up word and sentence, to find the definition), with increasing difficulty.
Great for students who wish to stretch themselves further.
You can find all of our vocabulary resources to prepare for the 11 plus from this bundle: Vocabulary Booster Bundle
11 Plus English Core Skills
11 Plus Foundation Course
11 Plus Summer Intensive Course
Year 4 should be the least stressful part of the 11 Plus journey, in fact the student should only be spending 120 minutes maximum every week of doing work. Gradually the time spent on revision should increase, however it shouldn’t be labelled as a ‘chore’, make the transition as smooth as possible.
In English it is important to keep on revisiting terms: grammar, punctuation, etc… It’s very easy to get quickly out of tune with SPaG. To have good creative writing skills, being able to tackle comprehension questions, verbal reasoning and more, you need to have the ‘English core skills’
Before advancing to formal English tests, it’s vital that the pupil has the knowledge and skills of basic English for the 11 Plus. English core skills is aimed to cover these topics so that the pupil can feel confident to move onto assessments. Note that this is ‘stage one’ of the foundation, so in the next stages the pupils will be introduced to ‘short’ and ‘long’ English tests. They will be prepared for this as they have gathered the skills from this book
11 plus July Crash Course- Get Exam Ready Calendar.
This is a unique plan to help your child succeed in the 11 plus. Each day of July contains exclusive activities and tests to be completed in order. Included are maths, cloze exercises, comprehensions, shuffled sentences, practice papers, word association, vocabulary, spatial awareness and more. We’ve done all the planning for you!
This plan accounts for the whole month of July and will get your child exam ready, and up to speed. It is designed to make sure that the student will work accurately and quickly, which is the key to success the in 11 plus exams. Enjoy!
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