3 things parents do wrong when preparing for The Guildford High 4+ Assessment
/We prepared 3 girls for their 4+ assessment at Guildford High this year.
Each year we prepare several girls for their 4+ assessment at Guildford High and each year we have exceptional results.
This is because we have been preparing girls for their 4+ assessments at Guildford High for nearly 2 decades.
We are highly experienced and we know exactly what has come up historically. That places us amongst the best of the best when it comes to preparing our girls for this incredibly challenging 4+ assessment. I don’t write that to scare you or to impress you. I am simply stating facts.
Here are 3 things parents do wrong when preparing for The Guildford High 4+ Assessment.
They start too late.
GH holds one of the earliest 4+ assessments out of all of the schools that invite students to attend a 4+ assessment.
This year, the 4+ assessments were held over two days (all girls attend both days) and the assessments were on the 9th and the 12th of October. So in order to have the full 12 months of assessment preparation that I strongly recommend for this school, parents should have started preparing two months ago. We currently only have two girls who have started preparing for their 4+ assessments who have already started (not preparing for this school) .
Don’t be surprised then if your daughter is not offered a place if she doesn’t have the correct length of time to cover the vast curriculum that you need to cover with her in order for her to have any chance for success at this school. If you are preparing your daughter for 2027 entry, join our Waiting List. We won’t have a full year but let’s maximise the time that we do have remaining before the assessment in October 2026. Once you join the Waiting List, send your preferred days at times to our Company Director and she will organise the rest for you (office@creativemindstutors.com)
They don’t understand what will be assessed.
It’s easy to get confused about this. By reading the website and by attending the open day at this school, it seems so low key and straight forward. However, not all girls are offered a place to study at this school following their 4+ assessment. This therefore tells you that this is a competition. This therefore tells you that your daughter does need to go in and shine. If you don’t understand what will be assessed, how will you ever prepare your daughter to go in and pass the 4+ assessment at Guildford High?
They don’t clearly explain their expectations to their daughters.
They tell them to ‘go in and play’ and ‘to go in and have fun’ but that’s not what they’re going in to do. What they’re going in to do is show the teachers why they would be lucky to have them there as their students. What they’re doing is going in and showing why they are ready to start at Reception at GH. What they’re doing is going in and competing with the hundreds of girls being assessed for one of the places available to study there.
It is not an easy process.
It is not as straightforward as you’d like to think it is.
Prepare your daughter and prepare her well for the 4+ assessment at Guildford High.
