If you tutor your child for 11+ do you continue over the summer?

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If you are tutoring your child for 11+ do you continue with tutoring over summer? DD is taking the exam in late Sept and has group tutoring sessions. The tutor is on about how they need to practise every day over summer. My plan was to let dd have summer off and relax a bit and then do some extra lessons (they offer three a week) in the run up to the actual exam in Sept. I am not sure tutoring all summer is going to help that much as she really needs a break too. Just wondered if this would be ruining her chances - does everyone tutor all summer?

I would do a little bit a week. Every day is a bit mean but you don't want to lose momentum.

Depends how good she is already really.
Some of my pupils continue for at least part of the holidays and some take a break.
The opportunity to do some work in the mornings when they are fresher than after a busy day at school is invaluable.

My children did about 20-30 mins probably 5 out of 7 days per week during the Summer hols before their 11+. I don't think half an hour per day is too excessive. I know some children who were made to do 2 or 3 papers every day during the holidays. That is child cruelty in my book and no way I would have put my children through that and nor would they have agreed to it! But yes, I would continue during the holidays but low key. Try and make it soon after they get up in the morning to get it out of the way and build a routine.

If everyone else does the summer work except her will it impact significantly on her chances of doing well? If so, then I guess you have a choice to make.

Sorry, I failed to answer the original question! Yes, mine had one hour of tuition per week from the October of Year 5 and we continued with this during the Summer hols.

Yes of course - its the most important bit! A lot of people start in early summer and do it quickly instead of having spread it out over an interminable period.

Gosh! We did 11+ but did not tutor professionally, we got the books and got her to look at weaker areas, probably maths, and the non verbal reasoning, there is no way she needed to do some every day and she had no formal tutors or extra HW for it!

I have five, the eldest did hardly anything and he did well, super clever, out of the other four the two that couldn't be persuaded to do much outside of their study sessions (about once a fortnight over the summer hols) scraped a pass, the other two did more work and did as well as the eldest

As ever with these 11+ questions it depends on whether you are in a super selective area or not, whether you're trying for an out of catchment place, what your attitude to risk is generally etc etc.

^^ yes of course if its super selective...