non vr scores getting worse! Help!!!
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:34 pm
Hi
Once again turning to this forum for some much needed advice.
Started on this journey back in march, for a non verbal test in october followed by Maths and English in november. Knew I had started a bit late , but still with a deep breath and encouragement from some on this forum have been giving it my/our best shot since...2 b honest Im not having major successes in any area, but there has been improvements made, that is except for Non verbal and I just cant figure out why. Perhaps Ive been TEaching it all wrong, not that Im much good at it myself!
When I first gave my DC a non verbal practice paper just to test the waters back in March he scored 75%.
I actually thought that was pretty good for a first run and thought that in a few months that score would naturally improve. I went through the How 2 do bond book and my DS seem to find that plain sailing,bond 9-10 went very well and the bond 10-11plus started out excellently 2, 90% ish I think.
However somewhere towards the end of the 10-11+ bond books and moving onto the bond more 10-11+ scores did begin to slip-80-85, maybe one or 2 had lower scores. The real problems came wen I startd the IPS practice papers, scores seemed to consistently be about 55-65%!! I then read some postings on this forum that those papers were found by some to be a bit odd, ..Ah I thought I shouldnt worry. So moved onto Athey, which I had gleaned from this forum was comparatively fairly easy, but still not having great luck. 80% first paper, today just 55%.!
Im not sure why things are getting worse rather than better. So far we have been doing Non verbal work about once a weekish, however as the first test is non verbal at the end of October I think we will be spending the majority of our time on non verbal. Does anyone think that 7 weeks will be enough time to boost this score? Do I need to go back to method books, any recommendations which ones. I feel a bit strange going back to method books, I keep thinking that now especially with such little time the best thing to do would be to keep doing practice papers, but I could be wrong? I am also feeling that perhaps I have been wrong to self tutor as I seem to have made things worse rather than better. Oh I guess ill have to hold my nerve until the tests, cant give up now Can I?
Once again turning to this forum for some much needed advice.
Started on this journey back in march, for a non verbal test in october followed by Maths and English in november. Knew I had started a bit late , but still with a deep breath and encouragement from some on this forum have been giving it my/our best shot since...2 b honest Im not having major successes in any area, but there has been improvements made, that is except for Non verbal and I just cant figure out why. Perhaps Ive been TEaching it all wrong, not that Im much good at it myself!
When I first gave my DC a non verbal practice paper just to test the waters back in March he scored 75%.
I actually thought that was pretty good for a first run and thought that in a few months that score would naturally improve. I went through the How 2 do bond book and my DS seem to find that plain sailing,bond 9-10 went very well and the bond 10-11plus started out excellently 2, 90% ish I think.
However somewhere towards the end of the 10-11+ bond books and moving onto the bond more 10-11+ scores did begin to slip-80-85, maybe one or 2 had lower scores. The real problems came wen I startd the IPS practice papers, scores seemed to consistently be about 55-65%!! I then read some postings on this forum that those papers were found by some to be a bit odd, ..Ah I thought I shouldnt worry. So moved onto Athey, which I had gleaned from this forum was comparatively fairly easy, but still not having great luck. 80% first paper, today just 55%.!
Im not sure why things are getting worse rather than better. So far we have been doing Non verbal work about once a weekish, however as the first test is non verbal at the end of October I think we will be spending the majority of our time on non verbal. Does anyone think that 7 weeks will be enough time to boost this score? Do I need to go back to method books, any recommendations which ones. I feel a bit strange going back to method books, I keep thinking that now especially with such little time the best thing to do would be to keep doing practice papers, but I could be wrong? I am also feeling that perhaps I have been wrong to self tutor as I seem to have made things worse rather than better. Oh I guess ill have to hold my nerve until the tests, cant give up now Can I?