Study materials and a first, honest read.
Two kinds of thing, one page: free study materials to work from on your own, and diagnostics — a reading of your child's own writing, at whatever depth you need.
Technique and practice are two different problems, and most students are missing one or the other. The guide teaches the method behind each question type; the three-pack is full-length practice with worked solutions; the vocab list is the recurring word bank underneath both.
None of that replaces an actual reading of your child’s own writing. A rubric can score writing that already exists — it can’t tell you how to write the next piece better. That comes from someone actually reading the work, at whatever depth you’re ready for.
Five free resources, one system.
- Free · 17 chapters + one compiled PDF
The Scholarship & Entrance English Assessment Guide
One chapter per question type across Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension, each with the method that reliably answers it and a worked example. The technique half of the pair below.
- Free · 617 words, searchable + printable
The Scholarship Assessment Vocab List
The vocabulary students meet in school scholarship and entrance English assessments — a plain definition for every word, built from six years of coaching.
- Free · 3 assessments + worked solutions
The Three-Pack of Full Practice Assessments
Three complete practice assessments with fully worked solutions — the question-pack half of the pair. Sit one as a diagnostic, work the guide against your weak spots, then sit the rest to measure improvement.
- Free · a practice generator
Creative & Persuasive Writing Prompts
A prompt, properly shaped — for creative and persuasive writing practice between lessons, generated on demand rather than drawn from a fixed list.
- Free · a recurring close-edit
The Sentence Clinic
One sentence, taken seriously — each entry rebuilds a single sentence in three moves and names the principle that transfers. With a twelve-question checklist to run your own sentence through.
Two depths, the same reading.
- Free · twenty questions, marked as you go
A practice assessment
Ten verbal reasoning and ten reading comprehension questions in Argo's own house style, with a full explanation behind every answer — the same rigour as any assessment we produce.
- Free · sixty minutes, with the student
The trial lesson
The deepest diagnostic of all: an hour with your child. The same reading, extended into a real lesson — locating present strengths and the work ahead within the curriculum.