Set Square Prep
Nivitha Vayath
11+ maths and reasoning tutor
Redhill, Surrey · and online
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11+ maths and reasoning tutor
Redhill, Surrey · and online
Message me on WhatsAppMy son is preparing for the 11+ right now. Not last year — this term. The registration deadlines, the practice papers at the kitchen table, the evening where nothing goes in and you start wondering whether you're pushing too hard.
That's how I ended up tutoring. I spent a year working out how the Sutton and Kent exams actually differ, what the papers genuinely ask for, and how to get a ten-year-old through them without the whole house dreading it.
Redhill parents get very little help with this. Surrey has no state grammar schools, so nobody locally explains the system to you — yet families here are applying to Sutton, sitting the Kent Test out of county, or doing both. Working that out took me months. You shouldn't have to repeat it.
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Exams I prepare for
English comprehension and creative writing. English isn't my first language, and 11+ English is a specialist paper that deserves a specialist. I'd rather say so now than take your money and hope. If your child needs English as well, ask me and I'll point you to someone who does it properly.
During my college years I tutored a number of children in India, alongside my degree. Two of them tell you most of what you would want to know.
The first was failing maths. We worked together through his final year and he finished his Class 10 board exams on 80%. Nothing about that was late-arriving talent. It was finding the specific things he had never properly understood — some of them years earlier — and going back and fixing them.
The second couldn't go to school at all. He'd been in an accident, so I taught him at home across every subject for his Class 7 year. He came out of it scoring higher than he had been managing in the classroom.
Different country, different curriculum — I'm not going to dress that up as 11+ experience, because it isn't. But it answers the thing parents actually worry about: whether someone who finds maths easy can teach a child who is finding it hard. I have done it, more than once, and with about the hardest starting points there are.
A free 45-minute assessment. No charge, no obligation, and not a sales pitch — your child works through a short set of maths and reasoning questions while I watch how they think.
A written report within two days. Where your child actually sits against the standard, which topics need work, how much time is realistically needed — and my honest view on whether the school you have in mind is the right target.
Then you decide. Plenty of families take the report and carry on by themselves. That's a perfectly good outcome, and the report is yours either way.
To book one, send me a WhatsApp message — it takes a minute.
Paid monthly, in advance. Four one-to-one sessions a month comes to £160 — invoiced at the start of the month, and a standing order makes it something neither of us has to think about again.
Or book a term. Twelve sessions for the price of eleven, if you'd rather settle it in one go.
Saturday groups are paid per half-term, because a group of four only works if everyone comes every week.
A week's notice to cancel, and I don't charge for a session you cancel in time.
I'm a computer science engineering graduate. Maths has always been the subject I'm quickest in — full marks in it consistently through school and university, top of my college, and among the highest ranked in my university across every subject, not only the numerate ones.
I also marked engineering exam papers at my college, which taught me something more useful than any of that: marks are awarded for what is on the page, not for what the child knows. A great many lost marks are simply a question misread.
None of that is really the reason to call me, though. It matters for one practical thing: nothing in a KS2 or 11+ paper is going to catch me out, so I can explain the same idea five different ways until one of them lands. Being fast at maths and being able to teach a nervous ten-year-old are not the same skill. The second one is the job.
I've lived in Surrey since 2021, and I work with a small number of children so that nobody is a name on a spreadsheet.
The quickest way to reach me is WhatsApp. Tell me your child's school year and which exams you're considering, and I'll suggest a couple of times.
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I've written a free guide to the 11+ for Redhill and Reigate families — the three routes, what each test actually contains, and the registration deadlines that catch people out. No sign-up, nothing to give me.