About
A specialist atelier for entrance-exam prep.
PT Publications is a small studio of tutors and former examiners writing school-specific practice papers for London's grammar and independent schools. No noise, no discounts, no countdown timers — just papers that behave like the real ones.
Founder's note
We started this because parents kept asking us for one thing.
For a decade I tutored pupils through the Sutton SET, Wilson's, Wallington, Whitgift and Trinity. Every year, the same request: "do you have a paper that looks like the real one?"Most practice packs didn't. They were generic, or aimed at three schools at once, or written by people who hadn't sat with a child through the exam.
So we started writing our own. School by school, subject by subject — the same timing, the same question style, the same mark scheme. Nothing decorative. Nothing padded.
Today, PT Publications is used by parents preparing at home, private tutors, and tuition centres across London and the South-East. We're still a small team; we still write every paper ourselves.
Who writes our papers
Named authors. Real credentials.
PhD Mathematics, Imperial. 12 years of 11+ tutoring; former CEM item writer.
MA English, UCL. Former head of English at a London prep school.
Ex-Cambridge admissions assessor; specialist in verbal & non-verbal reasoning.
Our method
How each paper is built.
- 01Study the school's examWe take apart the last 5+ years of the target school's paper — timing, question types, mark distribution.
- 02Draft to that exact formatA subject lead writes the paper to match — same rhythm, same difficulty curve, same style of English.
- 03Peer reviewA second author sits the paper end-to-end and flags anything that feels off-format.
- 04Typeset like the real thingWe set it in the same visual conventions the school uses so pupils recognise the paper on the day.