11+ preparation, done honestly
Mock exams built for your child's school, made with AI and checked in the open. Every question shows how it was made, and every mistake we've made is written down.
The Honest difference
Typical feedback
“You scored 65%.”
…so do another paper and hope it goes up.
What a diagnosis sounds like
“You understood the vocabulary, but took the distractor in question 4, the one built around the word’s everyday meaning. Here’s the ten-second check that disarms it.”
Every question is built around the mistake a hurried ten-year-old will make. Each wrong answer is there on purpose, and we show you which trap it is. We teach children to see the question from the examiner’s side: which option is the lure, which instruction word is doing the work, where the halfway answer is hiding.
In practice: A word with two meanings, and four options that all fit the wrong one.
Panic is mostly unfamiliarity. Short, timed sprints in the real paper format, with the real timings and the real “no pausing” rule, make the exam room feel like somewhere they’ve already been, so test-day energy goes into thinking, not worrying.
In practice: A timed paper that can’t be paused, exactly like the real one.
Two children can both score 70% for completely different reasons. Every mock records each answer, how long it took and whether it was changed. That way a rushed mistake, a stuck question and a topic that isn’t learned yet stop looking the same.
In practice: Weakest topics ranked, with how much evidence each is based on, instead of a bare “7/10”.
The 11+ Diagnostic Trap Challenge
Each of these is written the way real 11+ questions are: with a wrong answer designed to look right. Try one together, then see which trap your child's answer fell into, and why.
Choose the word that is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the word in capitals.
MINUTE
How we make questions
We'd rather show you how every question was checked than ask you to trust who wrote it. So here it is.
For 11+ maths, no one types the answer in, person or AI. Code works it out, and a second, separate calculation checks it. AI drafts our GCSE questions, and no question goes live unless its own working reproduces its answer.
Every option different from the others, and the right answer always among them. A synonym question never offers a second synonym. A spelling question’s “correct” option is never also misspelt. Maths with no runaway decimals. The same automatic checks run on the last question we make as on the first.
In September a runaway decimal, 15.666666666666666, slipped into 440 questions. Our checks hadn’t caught it. A family did. We fixed the blueprint that made it, replaced every affected question, and added the check that would have caught it.
Your child's answers are marked by code and never seen by an AI model. More in the questions below ↓
Meet the guides
Every explanation your child sees comes from one of three guides, each an expert in a different kind of thinking. They don't cheer and they don't nag. They show how the question was built.
Non-verbal & spatial reasoning, maths structure
“Don’t spin the shape in your head. Find one landmark and follow it.”
Time management & exam-room composure
“Stuck for a minute? Flag it, move on, come back fresh. Skipping for now is a tactic, and a good one.”
Verbal reasoning, comprehension & tricky vocabulary
“Every word in capitals is a suspect. Ask it where it was on the night of the exam.”
The long game
We don't teach tricks for one Saturday morning in September. The habits that get a child through an 11+ paper (reading the question, checking every step, staying calm when it's hard) are the same ones GCSE examiners reward five years later.
Year 4–5Coming soon
Reading the question before answering it
Spotting instruction words, second meanings and multi-step questions. Learning that a wrong answer is information, not a verdict.
Year 5–6
Test-craft under time pressure
Timed papers in the real format. Flag-and-return tactics. Eliminating options instead of hunting for the answer.
Year 6, MayComing soon
Knowing the papers, not cramming for them
Practice papers in the real shape and timing, so SATs week holds no surprises. No cramming: the tests only cover what has already been taught.
Year 7–9Coming soon
Executive function
Planning work, checking it, and knowing which kind of mistake you tend to make. This is the habit the diagnostics were building all along.
Year 10–11
Exam-craft, again
Mark schemes, command words, multi-step problems, compound percentages. The same rules, with higher stakes and more steps.
GCSE Maths (AQA) practice papers are now open for the Foundation and Higher tiers, alongside the 11+. Choose one under Full mock exams.
For parents
The 11+ isn't one exam. Here's how our papers map onto the formats you'll hear about, stated plainly.
Results are visible only to your family: your parent account, and your child’s own sign-in if you set one up. No leaderboards, no public profiles, no comparing them to other people’s children.
Your child’s name (a first name is plenty) and their birth month and year, never a full date of birth. No advertising trackers on the site.
Export a child’s full history, or delete it (or your whole account, sign-in and all) yourself, at any time. Anything else, just ask.
A practice paper sat at home isn’t standardised, so we don’t pretend it is. No percentiles, no “your child is in the bottom 20%” emails. If we don’t have enough evidence to say something, the report says that instead.
No countdown timers, no “only three places left”, and no using your child’s results to frighten you into buying more. If something costs money, you’ll know exactly what it is and what it costs before you’re asked to pay.
Full mock exams
Each mock is built around that school's own test, because question style, timing and scoring all differ. Stage 1 is timed multiple choice, marked automatically; Stage 2 is open-answer, with a model answer and mark scheme you mark against yourself.
Questions parents ask
Yes, almost entirely, and we’d rather you heard it from us. AI researched each school’s test, designed the blueprints our questions are built from, and drafts our GCSE questions. What makes the questions trustworthy isn’t who wrote them. It’s the checking, and you can see it on every question.
No. Most practice material asks you to trust its authors. We’d rather show you how every question was checked: what each one was built from, which trap its wrong answers were designed around, and which automatic checks it passed. If you find one that’s wrong, we fix it and write it down where everyone can see.
No. Every check is automatic, and we think that’s worth explaining rather than hiding. A proofreader checks a question once, and you never see what they looked for. Our checks run on every question before it can reach a paper, and they’re all published. The last check is you: any family can report a question, and every fix goes on our public list.
Yes, which is why we don’t let it decide the answers that matter most. For 11+ maths, code calculates every answer and a second calculation checks it. For GCSE maths, AI writes a draft, our checker redoes the sums, and a question whose working doesn’t reproduce its answer never goes live.
No to both. Answers are marked by code, against an answer that was calculated rather than typed in. Your child’s answers are stored privately, shown only to your family, and never sent to an AI model.
Because a practice paper sat at home isn’t standardised, and we can’t honestly turn it into one. A real standardised score compares your child with a large group of children their age who sat the same test in the same conditions. We’d rather tell you what we can actually see: which topics are secure, which traps keep catching them, and how much evidence each judgement rests on.
Tell us through our contact page. We’ll fix it, thank you, and add it to our list of corrections.
We keep track of every question your child has been given and serve new ones first. For most schools the question banks are large enough that repeats are rare. For a few tests, such as Camden’s banding assessment and the Wandsworth Test, the bank is still small, so repeats will happen. We say so on that school’s page rather than leave you to find out.
Each mock is built from our research into that school’s own test: its format, timing, question types and the traps it uses. Nobody outside the exam setters can promise an identical paper, and we don’t. Where a school doesn’t publish something, like the length of each section, we tell you our paper is an estimate.
Right now, yes: everything on Honest Mocks is free. That won’t last for ever. We’ll charge for some things in future, and we’ll tell you clearly before anything changes. What won’t change: we’ll never use your child’s results to frighten you into buying more.