Anyone sat sutton mock exams?

[Meanderdeander]

Hi. Dd did test A yesterday. She found the maths difficult although she is usually better at this than English and found the English okay. Really recommend it for the experience.

We're doing it next week, really for the experience. How long were each of the papers? Can't seem to find that anywhere!

I think about 45 minutes each. Good luck!

Thanks for that! I think I'm more nervous than she is - dreading the real thing.....

Sutton A results are out!

DD got a really good result but now have dilemma whether to tell her how good. I think we will just tell her it was a good pass and not go into details.

It's a shame the table doesn't give you rank or allow sorting.

It seems the maths was easier than the English.

Download the excel version and sort it yourself.

Yes, we gave them a go. Very enterprising of the Sutton PTA!

DD was right at the median for maths and english. So a wake up call. We haven't done any tutoring, aside from bond books at home, when we have spare time. Her primary school has always strenuously claimed that tutoring is completely unnecessary. She is our first child, so without experience, we followed their advice.

We have noticed that its the norm to have a moderate amount of tutoring (once a week) starting the middle of year 5, if a student wants to go onto selective education. We are scrambling to do this too now.

Maybe it doesn't make a difference, but we cannot afford to experiment.

I think tutoring once a week from year 5 is pretty much the norm. In fact I've noticed quite a few now starting in year 4. I think this is probably too early but parents seem to do it to make sure they get a spot with one of the popular tutors as they get booked up a couple of years in advance.

That sounds about right mertonmama. There have been some kids to start earlier and popular tutors are booked up. We've apparently approached tutors in the knick of time in our area. We just started last week and have been told that we would not have been accepted, if we had waited until after the summer holidays.

We have conflicting feelings about tutoring, but after two sessions, we can see that dd is having her knowledge extended in maths and english rather than cramming to take a specific test. So it's useful in the broad sense.