5 ways I will change your perspective about 4+ Assessment preparation
/These are 5 common beliefs that I encounter when I first start working with clients who are preparing their children for their 4+ Assessments. I am going to share these 5 common beliefs with you because I am sure that you hold one of these beliefs too. No judgement at all. If you’ve never been through this process before, it’s not your fault.
I’ve been through this process every single year for the last 15 years. I’ve been through this process for the last 15 years because I have been preparing my students to be very successful in their 4+ Assessments for the last 15 years.
I speak from my experience. I speak with the hope of helping hundreds of parents to have the same successes that my clients have had.
I know how important it is to choose the best education for our children. I take none of this lightly. I am passionate about supporting each and every one of my clients to have tremendous success. After all their success is my success!
Here are the 5 common beliefs that my clients have when I first start working with them.
1. The 4+ Assessments will be easy.
Now, the word ‘easy’ means different things to all of us. But essentially what they believe is that their child will go in, play a few games, show how amazing they are and be offered a place.
NO!
It’s a whole process. Each school is different in terms of their expectations and believe me, the 4+ Assessments are far from ‘easy’.
2. The schools will know who has been tutored and it will go against my clild.
If your tutor has prepared your child to the highest of standards as we prepare our students, how on earth will the school know that your child has been tutored? Remember - this is a competition. Out of hundreds and hundreds of applicants, your child needs to show something extraordinary to actually pass and be offered a place.
3. My other child goes there so I don’t need to prepare.
Absolutely not.
Most schools do not have a sibling policy in place and even if they say they do - they don’t. One school that has a very strong sibling policy is Chigwell. In order to pass their 4+ Assessment your child will need to do exceptionally well in the assessment/s regardless of the fact that they have a sibling who already attends the school.
4. I went to the school so my child will have more chance of being successful.
Wrong!
That’s great that you went to that school! But this has zero to do with your child being offered a place on that basis. If they are offered a place, please don’t for one second think it’s because of you having gone to that school too!
5. I don’t need to prepare my child.
Ok, good luck with that! I don’t have anything else to say about that one.
Take the process seriously if you want to have serious success.
