Doesn't deliver what is needed for Sutton examsMy child joined the classes at Sutton last year, but begged to stop as there was no joy in the learning, and no one spoke to each other.We transferred to the correspondence option instead - we were sent 3 papers a week, through rarely were they all completed.The maths material is excellent - v challenging. But you need to teach your child year 6 and a little of year 7 maths first and the course doesn't do this. Once those foundations were in place the papers were v useful towards the end of our preparation, especially for stage 2. NB there aren't that many multiple choice papers provided in the style of stage 1.This does provide deeper learning but means you have to look elsewhere to develop multiple choice technique.English material was nothing like the Sutton exams - there were only 2/40+ comprehensions which were in the right style for the SET (i.e. multiple answer questions) and the papers seemed to emphasise answering large numbers of questions under time pressure, whereas the exam was short and v unpressured on time. One of the Sutton style papers was sent out after the SET itself.The correspondence course provides very little to prepare for the creative writing test, but the 'in person' lessons do work on this quite extensively.The company made no provision to get papers to families during the postal strike - refusing to email material - which meant we were without papers in the immediate run up to the exams.NB I wrote this in 2022 before we knew the actual outcome of the exam..... but they passed strongly and is flourishing at the school. In Dec 2025 Test Teach tried to get this review removed, so I am reposting minus a reference to another set of papers which we found useful but expensive (even though we had no affiliation - we are just parents of a grammar schools child) because I think this information will help parents make an informed decision.
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