Private Tuition: Our Approach
The 7+ Masterclass
The 7+ entry point represents some of the most competitive assessment windows for London’s top-tier preparatory and junior schools. Navigating these early-years examinations requires a delicate balance: introducing advanced numeracy, literacy, and reasoning skills well ahead of standard developmental milestones, while keeping young learners deeply engaged and confident.
Our practice specializes in early-years academic governance. Rather than applying generic tutoring methods, we initiate the process with a rigorous, comprehensive diagnostic assessment to map your child's cognitive profile against the specific entry expectations of highly selective schools.
Led personally by our Director, we design and execute a meticulous, long-term development strategy. By systematically introducing exam mechanics alongside advanced critical and creative thinking, we ensure young candidates thrive under assessment conditions and comfortably unlock their academic potential.
11+ and the Common Entrance
The 11+ and Common Entrance assessments form the highly competitive gateway for Year 7 entry into top-tier independent and grammar schools. While assessment formats vary across the UK circuit, success demands far more than basic curriculum knowledge, it requires advanced problem-solving, rapid verbal reasoning, and flawless prose styling.
Drawing on years of experience navigating the elite London landscape, our practice streamlines this high-stakes process. We build the precision and academic resilience required to secure both exam success and the subsequent formal interview invitation.
St Paul’s Girls School
As one of the world's most academically rigorous and oversubscribed institutions, St Paul’s Girls’ School requires a uniquely sophisticated approach to admissions.
We offer a highly specialized, bespoke preparation framework engineered specifically for the distinct nature of the SPGS assessment matrix. Leveraging our deep familiarity with the school’s tracking metrics, we prepare candidates to think critically under pressure. Our meticulous, individualised methodology is reflected in our exceptional, unblemished track record of securing coveted places at SPGS year after year.
The 13+ Masterclass
The 13+ examinations serve as the primary entry gateway for prestigious independent day and boarding schools in Year 9. At this level, elite institutions look far beyond rote memorization, requiring candidates to demonstrate advanced critical thinking, sophisticated reasoning, and mature evaluative writing skills.
Leveraging senior experience with GCSE and A-Level frameworks, our practice backwards-engineers the 13+ prep process. We instill the higher-order academic habits required not just for common entrance success, but for long-term scholarship tracking.
To build deep competitive confidence and mastery of the advanced curriculum, we recommend families initiate strategic preparation in Year 6.
Interviews
Upon navigating competitive entrance examinations, candidates face the final and most critical stage: the school interview. Elite institutions utilize this discussion to assess school-fit, intellectual curiosity, and a student's genuine character beneath their academic metrics.
Our practice provides rigorous, bespoke interview coaching that transforms a daunting process into a platform for authentic self-expression. Led by senior school leadership expertise, our methodology refines interview technique, builds conversational confidence, and sharpens impromptu critical thinking.
By mastering the art of sophisticated engagement, our candidates consistently stand out, securing placement at the world's most prestigious independent day and boarding schools.
“Olivia streamlined a very stressful 11+ experience and made it accessible, supportive and grounded. We placed our trust in her and our daughter received offers from all nine of the schools we applied too. We couldn’t have done it without Olivia!”
Parent from Chelsea, London
GCSE Examinations
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations are a critical gateway in the British curriculum, dictating a student’s path to competitive A-Levels, the International Baccalaureate (IB), and top-tier university entry.
Our practice delivers elite, targeted intervention exclusively for GCSE English Literature and English Language. Led personally by a UK-trained secondary specialist and former Head of GCSE Literature, we bridge attainment gaps and elevate student writing from standard compliance to exceptional linguistic flair.
This uncompromising approach ensures candidates comfortably master higher-order critical analysis, reflected in an unblemished record where 95% of our cohort achieves a Grade 9.
Our Tutors
Our ’Director’, Olivia Narayan is an experienced classroom teacher working in both state and independent schools. Olivia has enabled students from across the country and world, access to the most elite of institutions such as Eton, Harrow, St Paul’s Girls and City of London. Working with families across the globe, Olivia is an exceptional private tutor who can support any student on their academic journey.