English, 7+ to 13+ Entrance, Oxbridge
A Cambridge English graduate with an Oxford Master’s and a working journalist, Rivkah has helped students into Westminster, Highgate, City of London Girls’ and Henrietta Barnett.
Rivkah read English at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and completed her Master’s at the University of Oxford. She works as a journalist alongside her tutoring.
Rivkah prepares students for 7+, 11+ and 13+ entry, with particular expertise in comprehension, creative and persuasive writing, verbal reasoning and exam technique, and her students have won places at schools including Westminster, Highgate, City of London School for Girls and The Henrietta Barnett School, which she attended herself. She also supports Oxbridge applicants with super-curricular interests, personal statements, admissions tests and interviews, drawing on her journalism to help them think on their feet.
Warm, playful and intellectually engaging, Rivkah is especially good with reluctant writers, and keeps parents informed with a candid, constructive view of progress.
