Start by asking your child to pick one topic from the test outline. With the book closed, give them a blank sheet and invite them to write or draw what they remember. If the topic is the water cycle, they might sketch arrows between a puddle, a cloud and the ground. Open the book together afterwards and use it to fill in any missing steps.
Bring the same topic back the next day in a slightly different form. Give your child a short question they haven’t already answered, then let them explain how they arrived at their answer. Spend the remaining time on the step they found hardest, and write down one question to try again later in the week.
In the final session, take out the questions your child previously missed and ask them to choose one to work through on their own. Keep the original attempt beside the new one so they can see what they understand now. If the same gap keeps coming up, those two attempts give a teacher or tutor a concrete place to start.
