I would love some advice please because we are absolutely at a loss and don’t know what to do. My child has been consistently preparing for the 11+ since year 4. We started early, as advised, and it has gone really well. He was averaging over 80% in past papers before Christmas last year.
We’re going for the super competitive North London grammars. Yesterday he did a mock for a new English group and we were shocked at the standard - it was so much harder than anything else he has done. It looks like all the mocks he has done and all the work for his (highly regarded) English tutor is just not hard enough. We are now panicking and don’t know what to do. We started early exactly so we wouldn’t be in this position, but it looks like he hasn’t been prepared adequately to stand a chance at QE Boys. We are devastated. If we had known the standard was so much harder than in the mocks he has done (incl SDE), we would have made different decisions.
Have others found this? To give context, he has gone from a raw score of c85%-90%+ to barely achieving 30%. The tutor who set the work he did badly on yesterday said that that was the required standard for QE boys. It was clear she thought he had no chance. I consider myself to be very well informed and I feel like we have wasted the past 2 years and have profoundly let my extremely bright child down.