'The UCS 4+ Assessment will not be academic' is laughable and insulting.
/I had a meeting yesterday with two of my clients. I prepared their daughter for South Hampstead a year and a half ago and she was very successful in all of the schools she attended for her 4+ Assessments. My clients are now preparing their son for top schools for his 4+ Assessments.
They told me their list of schools and we had a bit of a discussion about them.
Next, they told me about UCS. And the fact that they were told that ‘The USS 4+ Assessment will not be academic.’
They asked me for my opinion about it and here was my exact answer.
‘It is pure nonsense.’
Funny, the boys who I’ve prepared historically for over 16 years now never once mentioned that they just went into this Assessment to ‘play’.
Funny and also incredibly insulting.
And here’s why.
My clients who have been very successful at supporting their sons to pass the UCS 4+ Assessment have been the ones who have shown up every day for their sons. The ones who have put in the effort. The ones who have persevered even when things got challenging for them. The ones who taught their sons to read and write and the ones who knew exactly what UCS were looking for and were able to go all in to ensure success in their son’s 4+ Assessments.
And guess who were the clients who did not have this ultimate success?
It was the ones who believed that ridiculous sentence. Are the ones who told their sons to ‘just go in and play’. After all that’s exactly what they were told would happen!
Well, their sons didn’t pass their 4+ Assessments at UCS.
Hundreds and hundreds of boys will apply to attend their UCS 4+ Assessment (500+). With only 32 places available who do you think will be offered a place?
Do you think it will be the boy who knows how to write his name beautifully or the boy who can’t hold his pencil?
Do you think it will be the boy who can follow instructions perfectly or the boy who runs off to do the activity that he wants to do?
Do you think it will be the boy who knows his phonics or the boy who doesn’t?
I could go on…
Let’s be honest here.
It is not a play date.
It will be academic.
Prepare your son and prepare him well for the UCS 4+ Assessment.
