The TRUTH about NLCS at 7+
/It surprises me how many parents that I talk to who actually don’t know how many girls are offered a place in Year 3 at this school.
It surprises me how many parents I talk to who think that they can start preparing their daughter for their 7+ Assessment at NLCS a few months before the assessment.
Many (many!) girls will apply to this school to sit their 7+ Assessments. As in hundreds and hundreds. There are 7-10 places available.
A parent told me this the other day, ‘I’ve heard it’s easier to get in at 7+ than at 11+!’
Well, you’d be wrong about that (and that’s exactly what I told her). At 11+ there are 60 places available so not sure how they worked this one out!
Some girls will be applying for the first time, Many girls will be applying after not having been successful to this school at 4+.
In order to pass round one, your daughter will need to demonstrate academic excellence in their assessments. Your daughter will be scoring at least 85% in her assessments in order to pass the first round.
NLCS will then call back the girls who scored the highest in their assessments to the second round. This will be very tough to pass and you need to work with a teacher who can guide you with what exactly the school is looking for in this round. The second round is a day at school.
Because it is a ‘day at school’ many parents tell me that they didn’t prepare for this at all.
Don’t do this.
Prepare for round 2 as well as you prepared for round 1.
And if you don’t know how to, work with someone who does!
