Questions parents ask
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Cost and billing
- What does CHATT+ cost?
- £9.99 per child, per month. That is the only plan.
- We have two children. Do we need two accounts?
- No. One account holds as many children as you like. Each child is £9.99 a month, so two children is £19.98, on one subscription and one bill.
- Is there a free trial?
- Not at the moment. We would rather tell you that plainly than run a trial and make it awkward to get out of.
- Is there an annual plan, or a discount for paying up front?
- No. Monthly is the only way to pay today.
- How do I cancel?
- From your account, which opens the Stripe billing portal. Nothing to email and nobody to ring.
- Do SATs cost extra?
- No. The one plan covers every exam. Every child gets every question and every paper, for the 11+ and SATs alike, for £9.99 a month.
- Do we have to be Chatterton Tuition Ltd pupils?
- No. CHATT+ is sold on its own and anybody can subscribe.
- What if a question looks wrong?
- Tell us. There is a Report button on every question — your child taps it, picks a reason and can add a note, and it goes straight to the tutors. It takes a few seconds and nothing is lost: the question is marked as normal and practice carries on. This is the main way the bank gets better, so please do use it.
What is in it
- How many questions are there?
- 18,500+ questions and 1,800+ question sets are published, across 90 topics: 13,500+ for the 11+ GL, in verbal reasoning, maths, non-verbal reasoning and English; 4,200+ for the 11+ FSCE, in reading, vocabulary, spelling and maths, sharing GL's reading and maths; and 5,000+ for SATs, in reading, grammar, punctuation, spelling and maths.
- What is a “question set”?
- A passage or a puzzle with several questions attached to it. A comprehension is one passage and everything asked about it.
- Are there timed papers?
- Yes. There are eleven designs, and a fresh paper is built from the bank every time your child sits one — so the number of papers is not eleven, it is as many as they want. For the 11+ GL: English, maths, non-verbal reasoning and verbal reasoning. For the 11+ FSCE: English (a reading passage, vocabulary and spelling) and maths, thirty minutes each. For SATs: reading, grammar and punctuation, spelling, arithmetic and reasoning, each the length and shape of the KS2 paper it is modelled on.
- What does review actually do?
- It builds a queue from the questions your child has got wrong and not yet got right. Once they answer one correctly it drops out, so the pile shrinks as they improve.
- Which exams does it prepare for?
- Three. The 11+ in two styles: GL Assessment, primarily for Ripon Grammar School entrance, and FSCE, with reading, vocabulary, spelling and maths. And the Year 6 KS2 SATs: reading, grammar, punctuation and spelling, and maths. They are the questions Chatterton Tuition Ltd’s tutors use with their own pupils. If you are preparing for a different school or board, ask us and we will tell you plainly whether it fits.
- Can one child practise for both?
- Yes. Tick the exams each child is preparing for and they get the topics and papers for those, so a child sitting the 11+ and SATs gets both and switches between them on the papers page. A child practises one style of 11+ at a time, GL or FSCE, and can switch from their home page.
Using it
- What do we need to run it?
- A web browser. It works on a tablet, a laptop or a phone, and on a tablet you can add it to the home screen so it opens full screen with its own icon.
- Is it in the App Store?
- No. CHATT+ is on the web. Installing it to the home screen gives you the same thing without a download, but you will not find it by searching an app store.
- Can my child use it on their own?
- Yes. Everything is marked automatically, so nothing waits on a parent to check it.
- Will it remind them to practise?
- If you switch reminders on, yes.
- Can I see how they are getting on?
- Yes. Each child has their own progress, with a streak for days practised and medals for questions answered. Medals are for work done, not for scores, so a bad day never takes one away.
- Do we have to install updates?
- No. CHATT+ runs in the browser, so your child is always on the current version. When we add questions, they are simply there the next time it is opened.
Something else on your mind?
Write to admin@chattertontuition.co.uk and a person will reply.
Ready when you are
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