For reasons I won't go into, I am in the unexpected position of having to consider moving my daughter from the (decent) comprehensive she attends currently to an independent school. Not something I ever thought I would do, but current school are not meeting her needs.
I have never looked into this or prepared for this type of school entry before. We are not in a grammar school area, so no experience of lengthy preparation for any type of entrance exam. An initial look at websites of the two nearest potential schools both mention an entrance test, with this being 11 plus for year 7 entry. I presume the year 9 entry would be a similar age appropriate exam, but no idea where I would find practice papers or how to prepare for this. Also, if I move her, I want it to be soon, and therefore don't have time for a long period of preparation. She is bright, but not genius level, and she was the year which did not sit SATS due to covid, so hardly any exam experience.
Has anyone done this and got any tips/ know what to expect? Am I being unrealistic? We are talking about the kind of independent schools where fairly normal, if affluent people send their kids (eg high earning NHS or other public sector workers), nothing extremely fancy.
Thanks in advance.
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In attempting to move dd from state to independent school at start of year 9
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Earthseasky · 11/09/2022 23:03
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