[Children 14] The Aftermath of the Crucial Week and My First National Unified Elementary School Exam (Senior Kindergarten)

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Let me share the results from last time...

My graduate school graduation project submission

🌸Passed🌸

My company's super important hearing

🌸Passed the review🌸

My son Sora's national elementary school entrance exam

...🥀

Oh no...
Admittedly, my child, who has never been praised for his physical ability tests other than the written ones, said after it was over, 'I couldn't do the written test, but I did the other things (physical ability tests) perfectly!'
The flag was already raised at this point😭
I mean, he even got parts of the written test wrong due to his own assumptions, so passing was a gamble.
For example, when asked to 'arrange the pictures in order and answer the symbols for the 1st and 3rd ones,' he answered for the 2nd and 4th ones (because past papers and practice problems often ask for the 2nd and 4th ones)😭

Well, it can't be helped. We started late, and we couldn't adjust that much🥺
It's also the parents' fault.

Sora worked really hard until now🌸
I was able to see his hard work too😌
I respect him for being amazing.

Well then, let's switch to a public elementary school.

My son Sora will be attending a public elementary school where 70% of students are said to go on to take junior high school entrance exams.

Honestly, I am terrified.
And even if he failed the elementary school entrance exam, I didn't want the studying he did for it to go to waste.
Children forget things quickly.
So, wanting to connect the studying he did for the exam to the next step, I had him take the National Unified Elementary School Exam (for senior kindergarteners) at the beginning of November.

I also had the feeling that if he could get qualified for a prep school, it would give him confidence❓❓

At this point, Sora cannot read or write hiragana. He hasn't done any advance learning for elementary school either.
He doesn't speak, write, or read Japanese at his preschool (though he does speak, write, and read English...)

However, the wonderful thing about the National Unified Elementary School Exam...
To put it simply,
for senior kindergarteners, it's read aloud😭😭😭
Even for Sora who can't read, he can somehow manage...

I'm so grateful✨✨

And the questions are slightly related to the classes at his preschool❗️
Math and Japanese are not separated, but are comprehensive questions.

Taking it before the elementary school entrance exam was also meant to get him used to the environment. There should be many such situations other than elementary school entrance exams from now on.

Due to scheduling, I decided to take it at another affiliated cram school instead of Yotsuya Otsuka.

In the next installment, I will apply for the National Unified Elementary School Exam at a nearby Yotsuya Otsuka, and there were quite a few differences.

・This partner cram school did not contact us about preparation for the National Elementary School Mock Exam.
→Some Yotsuya Otsuka school buildings and other partner cram schools offer preparatory classes.
・This partner cram school could not accommodate our schedule.
→A nearby Yotsuya Otsuka allowed us to choose a convenient time and even change it.
・At this partner cram school, the return of results was done by scheduling a meeting, but despite that, there was no discussion about the school or the results.
→At the nearby Yotsuya Otsuka, they will hand over the results whenever you go to pick them up after the release date. They will answer if you ask questions, but there is no difficult discussion.

Since it was before the national elementary school entrance exam, we did not do any specific preparation for the National Elementary School Mock Exam at home.
Or rather, even now that they are in elementary school, they have never studied specifically for the National Elementary School Mock Exam.

The results from November of senior kindergarten are as follows.
National deviation score 49.5 (prefecture-specific deviation score is even lower)
2,315th out of 4,057 students.
That's behind the middle, isn't it? 🙄

Well, yeah, I guess it's average considering they haven't done any elementary school studies? (Desperate)

If they are going to take middle school entrance exams, they might need to start studying for them from here on out.
Personally, I thought there was a high possibility that they would take middle school entrance exams.

And so, I began to consider cram schools.