Silly Mitakes
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As a primary headmaster with almost 30 years of preparing pupils for the 11+ I would offer the following as my number one tip for any parent/adult preparing a child for any form of grammar school selection test. Go over the work that you want your child to do. (Do this on your own and before asking your child to it, so that you know the content) and then sit with your child as they do their test/practice work/preparation work. You will then be able to interrupt the child if they make a silly mistake by saying something like, â€
I've started a new thread in the Essex Section
it's called " English Paper can anyone help?" and I have cut and pasted your question there (I tried to split posts off this one, but made a mess of it!!)
This is a link to it
http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... hp?t=11470
Hopefully you should get some helpful replies there.
Yoyo
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it's called " English Paper can anyone help?" and I have cut and pasted your question there (I tried to split posts off this one, but made a mess of it!!)
This is a link to it
http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... hp?t=11470
Hopefully you should get some helpful replies there.
Yoyo
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Advice on test papers
Hi, My dd will be doing her sats in 2011, she has started doing Bond
books couple of months ago. I was thinking to give my dd some test
papers, so Could anyone please advice me is it too early to start test
papers? She has started the 10-11 years Bond books and also what are
the basic test papers are good for my dd. Thank you.
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What a good idea (why didn't I think of it?! ). Our DD does exactly the same thing, even though she knows every mark matters etc ...Bexley Mum 2 wrote:What you could do to help him focus is perhaps look through the paper yourself first and tell him that there are, for example, ten wrong answers, but not tell him where - and leave him to find out.
Have also read in another posting somewhere that you can try competing against eachother - so you do the same paper as DC at the same time and see who gets more correct. Beating mum/dad might be an incentive to focus on accuracy!
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