7+ test

[Jofins]

Hello, my DS is taking the 7+ for City of London Freeman's School in January. He's a reasonably bright little thing, but like many small boys has the attention span of a goldfish! Any tips or hints to make this easier for all of us please? I'm getting really panicky about the whole "test" thing now, he'll probably take it in his stride.
Thanks

[Sonnet]

Is it based on "bond papers"?
If so, you can buy some practice papers which may help him.Where is he doing the test? When my DD1 sat her 7+ to go from the pre-prep to the prep she didn;t even know she had - and neither did we!! It would be a bit diferent I would imagine if you were taking him to the school especially to sit the test

[narnia2]

He sounds as though he'll get through on his own merits. However, its all so competitive now. I think worth just exposing him to the types of questiosn he might be faced with. Bond books, Schofield and Sims good for this. Is there any reasoning - again worth practicing so even if he finds it all easy at least he'll be familiar with types of questions. Whats his story writing/comprehension like. Are you sitting any other school? Do his current school "prep" children?

[slummymomma]

My son is also doing 7+ this january for SW London school. He's at a state school so has been seeing a tutor. He has to do both verbal and non-verbal reasoning plus papers in english and maths. The books we've been using are as follows:

Bond - starter papers in verbal reasoning - 6-7
Bond - starter papers in non-verbal reasoning - 6-7
Bond - First papers in non-verbal reasoning - 7-8
Schofield and Sims - mental artithmetic (introductory book)

Has he had his interview yet? We had ours this week - went well but loads of the boys seemed quite stressed out by it. DS was OK and said that he wanted to go back for the assessment morning asap!

[Jofins]

Thanks everyone, I'll buy the Bond Papers to have a look. He's at an independent school at the moment. He's getting a little bit of extra homework and an hour of one to one tuition a week.
The test is on 10th January, then you are called for an interview some time during the week after. I presume that is if he gets a high enough mark in the test.

We'll just have to wait and see!