Questions parents ask

An iPhone and iPad app for children preparing for the 11 Plus. It breaks maths, English and reasoning into short topics of a few questions each, explains every answer as your child goes, and keeps a record of what has been covered. Ten minutes is a normal session.

It is deliberately built around getting a nine year old to come back tomorrow, rather than around having the most questions. Nobody runs out of 11 Plus material. They run out of evenings where it gets done.

Nine to eleven, which is Years 4, 5 and 6. Most children start in Year 5, a year before the exam.

Every topic comes in an easier and a harder version, so a Year 4 starting early and a Year 6 revising both have somewhere sensible to be. Younger children build confidence on the easier level; older children use the harder one to strengthen the areas they are weakest in.

No, and that is rather the point. Questions are answered by tapping, every answer explains itself, and nothing needs marking. You can look at their progress whenever you want, but the session itself is theirs.

Ten to twenty minutes. Long enough to get something done, short enough that it happens again tomorrow.

Consistency matters more than length. A little on most days adds up faster than an hour at the weekend that turns into an argument, and it is far easier to keep going for the eighteen months the 11 Plus usually takes.

Yes, and it is the most common way it gets used. A tutor sees your child for an hour. This is for the evenings in between, when nobody is coming round and the workbook is still shut.

Every question studied lays a block, and blocks stack into a tower for each paper. The app records which topics have been worked through, which have never been opened, and what your child scored the last few times they sat a quiz paper. Practise on consecutive days and a streak builds.

It lives in the app rather than being emailed to you, because a child who knows a report is going to a parent stops answering honestly.

The app is free to download and free to start. One payment of £19.99. Not a subscription.

That unlock covers every topic in all four courses at both difficulty levels, all 36 quiz papers, all 242 vocabulary cards, and anything added later. The pricing page sets it out in full.

One payment of £19.99. Not a subscription. You download the app free, use it, and unlock the full question bank from inside the app if it suits your child. There is nothing recurring, and nothing to remember to cancel.

It is better than a trial, because nothing expires. The free app opens a real slice of all four papers, plus some quiz papers and vocabulary cards, and it stays that way for as long as you want it to. Nothing counts down.

We deliberately did not lock three papers and leave one open. A child who can only reach maths never wakes the other characters up, and the part of the app that brings them back tomorrow stops working.

An hour with an 11 Plus tutor usually costs more than full access here, and the hour ends. This is not a replacement for a good tutor. It is what happens on the evenings between sessions, when nobody is coming round and the workbook is still shut.

Yes. The unlock restores on every device signed in to the store account that bought it. On iPhone and iPad that is your Apple Account, and there it is also shared with the rest of your family through Apple Family Sharing. On Android it is your Google account, and it restores on any device signed in to that account, but Google Play has no equivalent of Family Sharing for a purchase like this one, so it cannot be passed to a second family member. If a device forgets, Restore Purchases brings it back.

Through the store you bought from, the same as any other app. On iPhone and iPad that is Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com; on Android it will be Google Play. We never see your card details, so we could not process one even if we wanted to. The store decides, and the store refunds.

From the App Store, on the iPhone or iPad your child will actually use. Android is coming to Google Play. There is nothing to set up first: no web account, no unlock code, no email address.

Download free on the App Store

The app is free. The optional unlock is bought inside it, not here.

iPhone and iPad. The App Store will tell you if a particular device is too old to install it, which is the only answer that stays true as the app is updated.

The app is being rebuilt for recent versions of iOS, so a much older spare phone may not take the latest version. There is no web or desktop version of the app itself.

Not yet. The iPhone and iPad app is being rebuilt from the ground up first, and Android follows once that is stable.

There is no Play Store listing to send you to today, and we would rather say so than link you to a page that does not exist. If you are on Android, the free 11 Plus guides are worth a read in the meantime.

Yes. The questions live on the device, so a car journey, a train or a plane all work. Progress syncs when you are back online.