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National Education => Admissions tests => Selective Schools Admissions Tests => Topic started by: CosTheta on March 14, 2019, 02:55:53 pm

Title: Reading Comprehension
Post by: CosTheta on March 14, 2019, 02:55:53 pm

Hi All,
Can anyone guide me who have taken the test in recent years,how hard are the reading comprehension and verbal reasoning exams?
I am asking this because I attended a few Henderson's workshops and exams and found the reading comprehension passages and verbal reasoning  really tricky to comprehend and having said that I do a lot of reading - newspaper/novels but I found that the mock exams were on a different level altogether. I mean there were many words which I had never seen before  :-\

Is it just that hendersons are preparing the kids to a much higher level than the content that actually appears in these exams.   

Cheers

Title: Re: Reading Comprehension
Post by: pangushi on March 14, 2019, 04:18:46 pm

Quote from: CosTheta on March 14, 2019, 02:55:53 pm

Hi All,
Can anyone guide me who have taken the test in recent years,how hard are the reading comprehension and verbal reasoning exams?
I am asking this because I attended a few Henderson's workshops and exams and found the reading comprehension passages and verbal reasoning  really tricky to comprehend and having said that I do a lot of reading - newspaper/novels but I found that the mock exams were on a different level altogether. I mean there were many words which I had never seen before  :-\

Is it just that hendersons are preparing the kids to a much higher level than the content that actually appears in these exams.   

Cheers

I have not sat the test (yet) but from what I have heard from other people, apparently hendersons provide harder materials than the actual test.

Hope I have helped in some way  :)

Title: Re: Reading Comprehension
Post by: CosTheta on March 14, 2019, 08:50:56 pm

Thanks Pangushi, gives a bit of breather...phew...

Can anybody who has been to Hendersons and have attempted the exam in recent years share their two cents as well........

Title: Re: Reading Comprehension
Post by: scientificllama on March 18, 2019, 12:28:11 pm

Hi there!

I took the selective school test 2 years ago and most tutoring places (like Henderson's and Edu Kingdom) give quite difficult pieces to comprehend.
There are certain sites lurking around on the internet like Khan academy (espeically the SAT prep which helped soo much). Also try attempting the reading test on the selective school website and go other and complete similar questions to those you got incorrect.

Hopefully this helps  :) PM me if you need anything

Title: Re: Reading Comprehension
Post by: CosTheta on March 20, 2019, 09:51:59 am

Thanks k.herc ! Your comment helps restoring my confidence, I was quite perplexed looking at the pieces wondering how an 8th grader is suppose to know so much vocabulary...Also how was the verbal reasoning test, was it relatively easier as well when compared to hendersons/edukingdom ?