Hello
Does anyone have any experience of the 16+ entrance procedure for these schools?
In particular, is it absolutely essential to tutor? (For exam technique primarily rather than academic support.) How far ahead would you start?
They're obviously all very academic schools. My daughter is currently at a good school and would of course still have her place there if she were unsuccessful but I wonder whether it makes sense also to apply somewhere slightly less academic for a fall-back if she doesn't want to stay where she is. Possibly Rugby, Marlborough? I realise these are a very mixed bag of schools- all this is a way off so at the moment I'm just thinking about options. I don't know yet whether she or I will have strong feelings about day or boarding, girls or mixed.
She is academically very gifted, hard working and an all rounder in terms of subjects, considering maths, economics, philosophy, maybe politics or history. She doesn't have anything dazzling extra-curricular- she plays netball for the school and enjoys photography and politics- and obviously some applicants will have a lot more than this.
Would welcome any thoughts.