5 reasons you shouldn't listen to the advice to 'not tutor your child!'
/With OpenDays currently in full swing, I know that many of you will be hearing this famous phrase…
‘We strongly recommend you don’t tutor your child in preparation for their 4+ Assessment!’
I worked in a very popular Central London pre-prep and we used to tell parents the same (knowing full well, each and every one of them tutored their children!)
I know many of you really look up to these schools and respect what they tell you. However, I strongly recommend you don’t listen to this advice and here are 5 reasons why.
85% of students will have been carefully prepared.
These top schools are incredibly over subscribed. Think that applications will be in the high hundreds with very few spaces available.
If you don’t prepare your child, how on earth do you expect them to do everything that they will be asked to do in their 4+ Assessment?
Most of my clients who have followed this advice in the past, have not been successful at passing the 4+ Assessments.
Most of my clients who didn’t prepare their children for their 4+ Assessments, are now preparing with us for their 7+ or 11+ Assessments (or anything in between!)
The schools will tell you that they know which child has been tutored and which child hasn’t been tutored. I would ask them this question. ‘How can you tell?’
I don’t think any one has ever asked them!
If they give you an answer, let me know what they say! I’d love to know!
How can you tell a child has been tutored? And why would it go against them?
I’ve been teaching my son since he was 1. Would it go against him in a 4+ Assessment if he was able to answer all of the questions and do all of the tasks that he was asked to do?
I doubt it very much!
