Dukes Tutoring’s Academic Assessment
From uncertainty to a clear appraisal
Our academic assessments help identify your child’s strengths and areas for growth. Whatever your child’s age or target exam, our assessments and feedback reports appraise their current level and help you plan their next steps.
Academic Assessments with Dukes Tutoring
We offer various assessments depending on your child’s age, stage, goals and position.
Assessments are an important tool for you to understand your child’s strengths and areas of development. They provide the tutor a solid starting pointing to design a bespoke programme and allow for careful monitoring from our team.
Dukes Tutoring offers online assessments, comprehensive academic assessments, mock exams and education consultations. Have a look below to choose the right assessment for you, or call us today and we are happy to help.
Assessments for each stage
Dukes Tutoring offers a bespoke 4 Plus assessment to identify your child’s current level vs expectations for pre-prep entry.
When planning for prep or senior school entry, many parents want to know how their child compares to their peers at 7 Plus or 11 Plus level. We offer online assessments and a full comprehensive academic assessment and consultation to:
– Identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses
– Help decide which schools to aim for
– Help plan their tutoring or other preparation
Alongside mock exam preparation, we offer online assessments and a full comprehensive academic assessment and consultation
We offer mock exams, online assessments and education consultations to support all children.
We can offer bespoke mock assessments to our A Level students receiving tutoring with us.
We can offer bespoke mock assessments to our IB students receiving tutoring with us.
Dukes Tutoring Assessments
Online Assessment
Dukes Tutoring’s online assessment in Maths, English, Verbal Reasoning & Non-Verbal Reasoning. Following the assessment, you will receive a standardised score for each area which will give you a good idea of where your child is currently achieving well in, and areas of development. The assessment is designed to evaluate the student’s academic level against expected standards, ensuring the tutor can tailor the tuition in an engaging and effective way that maximises progress.
- Ages 6–16+
Online Assessment + Consultation
Everything in the Online Assessment, followed by a one-to-one consultation with Clive, our education consultant, to interpret the results, suggest suitable schools and plan next steps.
- Most popular
Comprehensive Academic Assessment
Dukes Tutoring’s exclusive comprehensive academic assessment. Think of this assessment as an ‘academic health check’. Depending on your child’s age, they will sit papers across various subjects. Following the assessment, you will have a meeting with one of our educational consultants where you will discuss your child’s results, their observational behaviour and potential future schools. This assessment can be delivered in person at our offices in London, or online.
- Ages 7–14
Why Take an Academic Assessment
At Dukes Tutoring we assess children individually from Year 1 (6 years) up to Year 8 (12 years), working with the children on a one to one basis. We are one of the very few consultancies and tutoring agencies that test potential. Our assessments allow us to test a child’s ability against the rest of their cohort nationally.
Our assessments are created specifically to help parents:
- Understand the academic level a child is currently reaching at school and how they are doing compared to others nationally.
- Identify their child’s academic potential and determine if they are currently reaching it, and if not then why not?
- Identify their child’s suitability for the range of entrance exams for selective schools at 7+, 8+, 9+, 10+, 11+ and 13+.
Our assessments allow you to track your child’s progress at school, helping you to make key decisions about secondary schools and your child’s academic future. Our tests can provide a first step alert for specific learning difficulties and concerns. In addition, they measure your child’s suitability for specific entrance exams for selective secondary schools and will give you an indication of your child’s likely chances of success.
All parents want their children to go to the right school – where they will be happy and thrive. For some, this will be a competitive secondary school and for others, it will be somewhere more caring and nurturing. We will help you identify the right setting for your individual child.
We often find that while children receive good feedback at school and appear to be doing well, they are still some way off from reaching their potential. Our assessments provide clear recommendations on how to move your child forward based on real data, to achieve their potential.
How Dukes Tutoring Assessments Work
Your child will sit a range of tests; depending on their age, this can take from 1.5 hours up to 3 hours. These tests provide us with a clear indication of the level your child is working at and key information about your child’s strengths and weaknesses. It also gives us a guide to their potential ability and whether they are currently achieving it.
Our assessments are marked by (and the feedback given by) senior teachers at deputy head or senior school leader level; our findings are written up in a detailed and bespoke formal report, which includes teaching recommendations and advice with suggested secondary schools. We spend an hour feeding back the findings in a face to face meeting with parents, providing opportunities to discuss the assessment in detail, ask questions about your child’s academic progress and the implications.
Once your child has completed the academic assessment, you will receive detailed feedback. We will then discuss how we can best support their preparation for the secondary school transition, ensuring they have clear guidance and tailored recommendations for their next steps.
We do not believe in tutoring children to get into a school that is not suitable for them. We tutor children to empower them to show their best in the exams, to go in with confidence and to have a positive experience.
It is vital that a child goes to an appropriate school. It can be as damaging for a child to go to a school which is below their academic level as it is to go to one which is beyond their ability. In both cases it is a difficult and challenging experience for a child. That’s why we always assess our selective entrance exam students before recommending the way forward.
For information please call: 020 3488 0754, or contact us.