8+ St Paul’s Advise, please

[GloriaMPT]

Any mums out there with boys at St Paul’s?
My boy is going to try the 8+ exam with very little preparation. Would any mum who has been there and got a place for his boy be willing to share her experience with me?
Thank you very much 🙏🏻

Tutoring is widespread in all the 3 schools. Otherwise, how can you have some many boys being at 2-3 years ahead of national curriculum, or 1 year plus ahead of what the teachers at these school are teaching?

Parents lie.

I know someone at St Pauls. Whilst they don't use a formal tutor, their mother sat them down religiously from age 3 every week end to study the older years curriculum. They still follow this routine and are in Year 7.

They might not use a formal tutor but they definitely do well above and beyond what an average parent / child would do.

“They might not use a formal tutor but they definitely do well above and beyond what an average parent / child would do.”

Surely, that’s what all parents ideally should do anyway with their children, if possible, to sit down and teach them? I don’t think parents teaching their own children is considered tutoring. Whether you label this “tutoring” is up to you but the word tutoring implies a formal arrangement with an outsider to teach an academic subject. If I’m teaching my child how to read or spell, I’m teaching, not tutoring.

One should expect at these academics schools that the parents will be hands-on with their children, either directly or indirectly, so no surprises there.