How to prepare your child to be very successful with the RGS 7+ Assessment

Each year we prepare several boys for the 7+ at RGS. We will also be preparing girls as they move to co-educational.

This year, the RGS 7+ Assessment will be on Saturday 7th November 2026.

This means that you have only 9 months remaining to prepare your child for this 7+ assessment. 9 months becomes 7 when you factor in holidays and illnesses!

Have you started preparing your child? I do hope so.

My suggestion, based on years and years experience is 2 full years of assessment preparation for RGS. The best results we’ve had have been from our students starting with us from the autumn term of their Reception Year.

If that’s not you, that’s ok. Just get started from this moment! As in today!

Your child will need to be very strong in their reading and in their comprehension. Our students who have passed this assessment at 7+ have been at a year 3/ year 4 level in terms of their reading. They are students who are avid readers and reading chapter books. Creative writing will be very strong. Our students will have written at least 10 stories before going to their 7+ assessment at RGS. Our students who have typically passed have had a very strong understanding about how to write stories to the level expected by the RGS assessors and they have been able to go in and skilfully do just that under timed conditions.

Your child will need to have excellent spelling and have a strong understanding of grammar. Again, our successful students have been those working at a year 3/year 4 level in their SPAG.

Your child will need to cover a broad and vast maths curriculum in order to stand a chance in this assessment (at a year 3 level.)

Your child will also have practised with many past 7+ papers. I’d say that our students who have passed this 7+ assessment will have practised at least 30 past papers and have gone through the answers and have a thorough understanding of where they have gone wrong and how to make improvements.

Prepare your child to be wildly successful by joining our Ultimate Emerald Curriculum Programme. Lock in and be committed. Fully focus and take massive action and see tremendous progress being made in all areas of learning.