I think I m more stressed out than my ds. Have awful feeling he flunked the maths test yesterday for a boys' school, he said he could only answer half the questions. And if they don't score well in all papers they don t even get an interview. Awful feeling of being judged: him and us.
Getting a state primary school educated kid ready to take private school tests is horrible. You have to compete with these prep school kids who are doing nothing but past papers for a whole year. Whereas you have to take full responsiblity for getting him up to speed in a system you don't really understand.
And state school maths seems only to be about sums, whereas the paper he sat was all problems, ie applying maths knowledge.
Woke up in middle of night thinking 'what if he doesn't get in anywhere?' Because state schools he'd get into are truly dreadful round here.