Looking for advice......
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:26 am
Hi
My daughter is doing really well at Maths and Verbal Reasoning but just seems to have no interest at all in English. She can generally answer the factual questions in the comprehension but when it comes to the question where she has to put her own thoughts or interpretation on paper she just down tools and says it is too hard. Does anyone have any advice or tips for doing comprehensions? I am concerned that this is going to let her down and that's such a shame when she is doing so well at the other subjects. She does have a very black and white brain and therefore favours science and maths where answers are right or wrong. Someone told me at the weekend that the trick to doing the comprehensions is to read the questions before the text. Is this true and if so would she have time to do this in a test situation? Any help gratefully received.
My daughter is doing really well at Maths and Verbal Reasoning but just seems to have no interest at all in English. She can generally answer the factual questions in the comprehension but when it comes to the question where she has to put her own thoughts or interpretation on paper she just down tools and says it is too hard. Does anyone have any advice or tips for doing comprehensions? I am concerned that this is going to let her down and that's such a shame when she is doing so well at the other subjects. She does have a very black and white brain and therefore favours science and maths where answers are right or wrong. Someone told me at the weekend that the trick to doing the comprehensions is to read the questions before the text. Is this true and if so would she have time to do this in a test situation? Any help gratefully received.