What is the Group Assessment at St Paul's all about (7+)?
/Having prepared hundreds of boys for St Paul’s personally for over 15 years, let me tell you that this is a very hard school to be offered a place at.
If you have your heart set on sending your son to St. Paul’s you will have wanted to have started preparing him from birth.
Yes, that’s what I think!
If your son does well enough in the Written Assessment (round 1), he will be invited back to the Group Assessment (Round 2).
As long as your son achieves the percentage pass mark at Round 1, he will pass and be invited back. If he doesn’t achieve the pass mark, he won’t be.
Simple.
The Group Assessment is a half day Assessment. Your son will be in a group of about 10 boys and will take part in lessons (maths and english lessons specifically). There will also be a group problem solving task. Whilst your son is having his Assessment, parents will meet with the Head.
Parents tell me that you cannot prepare for the second round and this is just not true.
I have been preparing my boys to be incredibly successful in their Round 2 Assessment at St. Paul’s for many years.
In order to pass round 2, your son will need to:
Show that they are genuinely curious about the world around them.
Show that they are hungry to learn more and more.
Show excellent listening.
Be respectful and kind.
Answer questions with confidence.
Show independence.
Show excellent team working skills.
Be genuine. They will see right through any sort of rote learning or memorization.
If you want to prepare your son for his Assessment at St Pauls, start from at least the Autumn Term in which they begin Reception. We will no longer be working with parents starting later than this for St Paul’s.
There is no point.
It will also be assumed that you will have been working with your child prior to beginning formal tuition. It will be assumed that your child can already read by this point (we have our own criteria for assessing this).
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