Top 3 LIES about the UCS 4+ Assessment

So you have your heart set on UCS for your son. You’ve decided this is the school you want to send your son to. You’ve visited the school and this is it! You’re feeling so excited and you believe that your son is ready for his 4+ Assessment and that he will ‘just be offered a place’.

Will he though?

Are you sure?

Doubts start to crop up in your mind…

You’re not alone, don’t worry and it is perfectly normal to fear the unknown.

To me it is not an unknown.

Myself and my team have been preparing boys for the 4+ Assessment at UCS for over 16 years!

I speak to parents every single day about the 4+ at UCS and here are the Top 3 LIES about the UCS 4+ Assessment. We have prepared hundreds of children to be very successful in their 4+ Assessment at UCS.

LIE #1

‘No preparation is needed for this play date assessment’

What a LIE.

Believing this is like believing that dieting is not needed in order to lose weight.

I have no more to say about this.

LIE #2

‘UCS will be able to tell if my child has been tutored and if they do, he will not pass’

What a LIE.

If your son is not tutored he will not pass.

It is really very simple.

Either you prepare his yourself or you have someone else prepare him, you must prepare him.

LIE #3

‘You don’t need to do much to be offered a place at UCS.’

What a LIE.

Sure, go and tell that to the hundreds of parents who are rejected each year following their son’s 4+ Assessments.

You need to do A LOT actually in order to have any chance of passing this 4+ Assessment.

Preparing for the UCS 4+ Assessment for 2026 entry? We have an incredible new course launching from September 2025. It will be on Mondays at 4pm with Emily Armstrong and will be open to the first three children who join the Waiting List.