RGS Guildford 11+ composition

[Justarrivedlondon]

Does anyone know the type of creating writing the school usually test? Story writing, discursive, letter, descriptive, etc ?

I too would be interested in this and any insight into how the interview morning goes, thanks

@Justarrivedlondon, Worth checking their web site. Is there actually any writing as such?

Of course, there is. Otherwise why would I ask?

Anyone can help please?

@Justarrivedlondon would love to help. You'll probably need someone whose DS did the exams, late 2020 or 2021, when the school moved to doing ISEB. When DS did the exam Jan 2019, the composition linked to the comprehension text in the English paper.

Regardless, I'd recommend Descriptosaurus for creative writing... Great for sentence starters, lead ins to poetry, etc. If DS has to do anything like writing a story from a picture, try Pobble365 for practice illustrations and get a few stock storylines that fit a few different types of picture.

Good luck!

So rude!

As an English teacher at a sought after independent school, I would say that a good candidate should be able to write successfully in any one of those genres without their mother trying to guess the question in advance…

Is there anything wrong to get the son prepared? To ask if anyone knows the type of writing expected? It is not guessing the question, is it?

You might as well say don't prepare anything.

Fortunately, the admission team at RGS is far more understandable. In their assessment briefing a few days ago, they did give us a bit more information on the creative writing part.

My son sat the entrance exam last year. We didn't prepare him for the creative writing. He developed this skill himself by reading extensively for years. If your son is not already comfortable in all styles of creative writing, then it's probably not the sort of thing you can cram at the last minute and expect to receive a top percentile result (given the standard of the boys applying). What I would recommend is ensuring your son doesn't display an attitude like yours – the school places great importance on being kind and respectful to others.