To improve an 11+ practice paper score, stop practising everything equally and start targeting the specific skills losing the most marks — then re-test to see whether the gap has closed.
General revision spreads effort thinly. A more targeted approach is to identify the one or two skills costing the most marks and focus attention there.
The cycle is simple: understand the mistakes, target the key skill, practise it with purpose, then re-test and track the trend. A weak topic that's genuinely fixed lifts the score more than another round of mixed practice.
Watch for the three different causes of lost marks — not understanding a topic, careless slips, and running out of time. Each needs a different fix: a lesson, a checking habit, or timed practice.
What to do: diagnose the biggest gap, fix it specifically, re-test, then move to the next gap.
Smart Papers show you that biggest gap after every paper and link straight to the free lesson for it — so improvement is targeted, not scattergun.