What preparations do international schools need to make for preparing for exams?

How to better prepare for international school applications?

(1) What preparations should parents and children make for attending an international school?

First of all, for parents,

1. Learn more about the characteristics and key time nodes of international courses and plan the future with your children.

Some parents often think that their children can't adapt to the exam-oriented education in China, and it will be much easier to study after entering an international school. This is actually a wrong view. In fact, studying in an international school will not "reduce the burden", but requires more energy and time. From the aspects of university application, examination arrangement and international course selection, parents need to plan their own study and future university application with their children.

2. Recognize the management culture of international schools.

◆ Cultivate children's positive attitude and self-discipline spirit.

◆ Return some management rights to students.

◆ Return the choice to the students.

◆ Return the autonomy to the students.

◆ Establish students' sense of responsibility

3. Look at the changes of children from a more comprehensive perspective.

Newborn parents are used to desperately looking for excellent qualities in their children after they attend international schools. However, with different learning objectives, different educational models and different examination systems, international education pays more attention to personality shaping and all-round development, so the educational effect will not be so clear in a short time, and parents can only see and feel it in their later life and study. After a long period of public system education, most of the results or rewards imagined by parents from their children are only exam results. Maybe their children's ability has improved, but parents can't realize it in time. Parents should improve themselves and look at their children's changes in an all-round way.

4. Fully trust schools and children.

Every year, when freshmen enter international schools from public schools, parents are always the most anxious, worrying about whether their children can adapt to the English environment, whether they can keep up with their studies, how they get along with their classmates, whether they are used to eating and living, and so on. Generally speaking, most children can adapt to the English environment quickly within three months after school starts. During this period, parents need to give their children more encouragement and confidence.

5. Take the initiative to understand the assignments of international schools.

Compared with most traditional schools in China, international schools leave little or no homework. Students in international schools have different forms of homework and the time they need to spend according to their age and grade. There are generally clear guiding principles. In some grades, homework is parent-child activities or parent-child reading, which requires parents' participation. Therefore, parents of students in middle and lower grades below senior high school need to pay attention to their homework.

Parents should pay attention to their children's various forms of homework and give them active support and companionship. In fact, international schools emphasize parents' participation and support in children's education, and family education is an inseparable part of school education.

6. Actively participate in school activities.

International schools usually have the concept of "education as a whole", that is, schools, students, parents and society form a healthy and positive environment to support students' learning and development. Therefore, when holding various activities at school, parents should actively participate with their children and actively cooperate according to the requirements of the school. This will help parents better understand the organization of education and teaching activities in international schools and the learning and living environment of their children at school.

7, familiar with the schedule, school calendar arrangement.

Usually, international schools don't have a long lunch break at noon. Parents should consciously let their children go to bed early at night to ensure their sleep time and adjust their biological clocks in advance to adapt to the afternoon without lunch break and fully ensure the learning effect. Important activities and events in the school calendar are usually marked, and international schools also have their own fixed contact information with parents. They usually contact and communicate with their parents through class parent-teacher conferences, school websites and emails. , and publish notices and activity previews. Parents need to take the initiative to pay attention to this kind of information in order to keep abreast of students' school situation and the latest school activities.

8. Cultivate children's self-care ability. Letting go is love.

The preparation of living ability belongs to the category of family education. If students can't fold quilts, wash clothes and other basic life skills, parents must give their children this course in advance to cultivate their ability to do it independently from an early age. For children, being able to manage their own life affairs in an orderly way is also building a kind of self-confidence, so learning to live is also an important beginning for children to build self-confidence.

Second, for students.

1. Facing the challenge of English environment

For freshmen, the biggest challenge is definitely from the whole English environment, but the challenge is also the best opportunity to learn English. English is a language, which needs a lot of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and quantitative change can produce qualitative change. Immersive environment brings back the best soil for English learning. Freshmen should not be afraid, study hard and get through the adaptation period as soon as possible. Freshmen should carefully study the English learning materials given by the school in advance before entering school, and complete the task with good quality and quantity as required. Strengthen basic English vocabulary in summer to prepare for formal study.

2, the change of learning style

Changes in learning methods, especially in classroom debates and study groups. The teaching mode and atmosphere are quite different from those of public schools. And the requirements for writing and reading skills are also very high. International education attaches great importance to extensive reading of books, and teachers in international schools will advise students to read all kinds of books and accumulate knowledge. Many liberal arts assignments are completed by papers, and English writing ability is particularly important.

3. Learn to be tolerant and understanding.

International schools provide accommodation and students usually come from all over the world. Due to different cultural backgrounds and growing environments, there will be cultural differences and lifestyle differences among students. We should be mentally prepared in advance, and learn to tolerate and communicate when we encounter things that we don't understand and are not used to.

4. Social practice and extracurricular activities

Club activities and social activities have become very important. Different from students who take the road of college entrance examination, after entering an international school, they should not only pay attention to their scores, but also their outstanding performance in societies and associations will become the weight for applying for world famous schools. Besides school activities, we should also actively participate in social practice activities.

5. Optimistic attitude and hard-working spirit

Freshmen will face many difficulties. Be sure to keep an optimistic attitude. When you overcome all the difficulties, you will find that your own ability has made a great leap. Above all, you must have confidence in yourself. Although it will be difficult at first, the future must be beautiful. ...

When choosing an international school, parents and children should know more about this, plan their children's future, help their children spend a good time with the school, and finally go to an ideal university.

(b) International schools prepare for time literacy (prepare the timeline, register &; Examination time, etc. )

(3) Content and difficulty of international school entrance examination (English, mathematics, interview)

The entrance examination for international schools mainly consists of written examination and interview. Mathematics and English are compulsory subjects in written examination. Every year, the requirements of international high schools for students' English ability are constantly improving. According to the admissions office of Shiwai, Heping and Xinghewan, if you want to pass the English test of the entrance examination, your vocabulary needs to reach 5000-6000, which is equivalent to 75 points in TOEFL and 5.5 points in IELTS. It is worth mentioning that the vocabulary of CET-4 in China is 4,000, and that of TEM-4 is 8,000. So this difficulty is also obvious.

Each school has a slightly different way of examining mathematics. For example, all the math papers in English are used all over the world, and Pinghe bilingual math papers are in both Chinese and English. Some schools, such as Ke Ling and Guanghua Cambridge, allow students to choose Chinese or English papers. The Chinese volume examines the knowledge points learned in Shanghai junior high school textbooks, and the English volume generally uses mathematics volumes synchronized by international schools, such as IGCSE and other courses. Students need to be more familiar with mathematical terms.

In the case of interview, most international schools not only need to interview students, but also parents need to pass the interview. A few schools require both parents to be present at the same time.

For students, the interview is not only an English test, but also an opportunity to make a good impression and show that you can do well in your new school. In the case of similar hard power, international schools will pay more attention to your soft power such as communication with people and hobbies.

Nowadays, more and more students apply for international schools, and the entrance threshold of prestigious schools is getting higher and higher, which is reflected in the following aspects.

① Limit the number of entrance examinations.

② Increase the difficulty of entrance examination.

Some schools will hold multiple entrance examinations, but students are only allowed to apply once.

(4) How to prepare for an international school? (Preparation process and service)

For some children who intend to transition from the internal system to international schools, they receive a relatively complete public system education model in primary and secondary schools, and their study habits and thinking patterns have formed their own systems. We can't say which way of thinking is better, but considering that they will accept more international education models in the future, the depth and difficulty will be greatly increased, and children will also face greater transitional pressure. Parents are advised to choose an institution that provides preparatory courses for international schools and make some preparations for literary writing, American high school mathematics and English interview, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

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Students in Grade One and Grade Two should start TOEFL in advance.

If you want to enter a well-known international school, it is particularly important to prepare for TOEFL in advance. The English test part of international schools is usually a mixture of college entrance examination English and TOEFL, which is much more difficult than the senior high school entrance examination. In terms of vocabulary, the vocabulary of senior high school entrance examination needs to reach 1600, the vocabulary of college entrance examination needs to reach 3500, the vocabulary of Shanghai international famous schools needs to reach 5000-6000, and the vocabulary of TOEFL needs to reach 8000. [3]

If you have spare time, you can know the oral content of the interview in advance, and even start to learn TOEFL, so as to improve your English ability from listening, speaking, reading and writing. Therefore, it is suggested that students with good English foundation or low pressure in the senior high school entrance examination can start TOEFL in advance.

Grade three students focus on preparing for the exam.

The international department of most public schools in Shanghai and Hangzhou should assess students by organizing English test+senior high school entrance examination. Interview questions range from simple self-introduction to personal ideal discussion. If you want to stand out in the interview and enter the international department smoothly, you must prepare the interview content, answering methods and ideas in advance to avoid being nervous, not confident in pronunciation and answering too many questions at will.

Therefore, in the whole preparation process, we should not only carefully prepare for the exam, but also pay attention to the English proficiency test, and don't miss the ideal international department of public high schools. "It's a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, so I will go up and down." Since I choose an international class to study, I should make full preparations.