Ameet
Ameet is one of our most experienced secondary admissions 13+ tutors. A graduate from Imperial College London with a BSc and MRes in Physics, Ameet has been a full-time tutor for over 7 years.
He has aided students to gain admissions to schools, including:
- Queen Elizabeth’s Boys School, Barnet.
- Westminster School,
- City of London Boy’s School
- Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys
- The Henrietta Barnett School
- North London Collegiate School
- St Paul’s School
- Godolphin & Latymer
- Wycombe Abbey
- Winchester School
- Eton College
- Tonbridge School
- Harrow School
- Highgate
- Sevenoaks School
Ameet is also highly knowledgeable when it comes to 7+, 8+ and STEP Mathematics examinations.
On top of his tutoring, he has also founded past paper resource websites mypretest and myexampapers, and has a wealth of knowledge regarding specific school exam formats and resources to match.
Sample admissions statistics for the year 2022:
| Eton College: 6 applicants, 5 offers (including 1 King’s Scholarship) Stage 1: ISEB Pretest – assessing numeracy, problem-solving & vocabulary through tests in Mathematics, English, VR and NVR. Multiple choice, computerised exam with high time pressure and adaptive questions.
Stage 2: Computer-based ‘Eton List Test’. Mathematics assessment, including questions on time zones and currency conversion. An English essay scrolls up the screen with errors in each line that need to be corrected before the timer runs out. Puzzle questions to assess VR and NVR, using a mouse to choose the correct answers. Additional writing task, typically asking an open-ended non-fiction question: ‘Is the world a better place without rules?’ and ‘How could humans better deal with the climate crisis?’.
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| Westminster Under School: 5 applicants, 4 offers
Stage 1: ISEB Pretest – as above.
Stage 2: English exam testing comprehension and writing – inference, spelling, vocabulary and punctuation included. Classic mark scheme crediting imagination, creativity, form, purpose, organisation, cohesion, and sentence structure. Challenging mathematics exam testing problem-solving and arithmetic. Best preparation comes from completion of the Eton King’s Scholar Papers, Westminster Challenge and Tonbridge/Radley/St Edward’s Scholarship Papers. |
| St Paul’s School, Boys & Girls: 4 applicants, 4 offers
Stage 1: ISEB Pretest – as above.
Stage 2: English and Mathematics exams similar to Westminster. The English exam typically uses source-based comprehension tasks, similar to a history exam. Students are required to analyse multiple text passages and also determine their validity based on age and author. The mathematics exam is split into three sections by difficulty.
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