In this article there’s no time for false modesty, from you or me. If you know that your child is better than average in a subject – encourage them to sit the Scholarship exam in that subject. I wasn’t even going to sit the two Scholarship exams I passed at school. The teachers at school didn’t tell us much about them, didn’t encourage those of us that were able to at least give them a go. I think at a lot of schools teachers have a lot of kids of very varied ability in their classes, … [Read more...]