The secret to successful 7+ Time Management
/Time management is a skill that your 6 year old must master in order to be successful in their 7+ Assessments. Time management is a skill that is taught. It is a skill that needs to be practised. It is a skill that requires patience.
Time managements doesn’t even come naturally to most adults that I know, why would you expect it to come naturally to your 6 year old?
If your child goes to school, they will most likely practise time management. Most likely they will be given a certain time to complete a certain task and this is great. This means that they are practising their time management skills.
However, this is not enough.
In the 7+ Assessment your child will be given a specific amount of time to complete a large body of work. There will be x amount of questions to complete in let’s say 60 minutes.
To guarantee time management success in your child’s 7+ Assessment, your child needs to practise a lot. As in every day. Your child needs to complete papers in timed conditions and they need to be able to observe the time and plan their time meticulously. Your child needs to develop the skill of being able to do this independently and not with you telling them how much time they have left. This will not be happening in their 7+ Assessments.
Parents that I speak to after the 7+ Assessments are often surprised that their child did not complete their entire paper or left huge chunks out. When I ask them how their child was at managing their time, they often tell me that they didn’t practise that.
So what do you expect then?
The secret to successful time management in the 7+ Assessment is to practise daily. Put a timer up from YouTube (if it doesn’t distract!) or simply give your child a watch (digital or analogue) and invite them to practise checking how long they have left. Start with smaller time increments and build up to larger time frames.
A lot is expected in the 7+ and time management is most certainly a skill that must be mastered in order to have any sort of success.
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