How To Prepare Your Child For An Exam

What can I do to prepare my child for an exam?

As a good parent preparing your child for an exam really involves understanding the curriculum, understanding what are the standards that the teacher has to teach. Let's say in fourth grade, and let's say in fourth grade mathematics, so you understand that and have a sense of what this exam is about. Then you're working with the youngster and talking to him, asking him questions about those particular standards and that is a real good way of helping the younger complete the homework. Asking to see the paper at the tailend when the youngster is done, and then asking him, "Can you explain problem number 3 to me?", for example. If you get a sense that he understand problem number 3, it's fine. If you get a sense that he just put an answer down and didn't understand, then you know that there's a problem, and you're going to have to probe a little bit more. Ultimately, you may want to have a parent/teacher conference, if you find that maybe he doesn't understand problem two, ten and twenty. There might be something wrong there and you might want to have a conference with the teacher.