It’s a snapshot of your child in March. A whole term has passed since. Bring it in — the Term 3 Diagnostic checks what’s still true, what’s new, and how far your child is from where you want them — at school, or at OC, Selective and scholarship level. Then we work those gaps, term by term, until they’re closed.
$30, one visit. We check the report against where your child is now — then work the gaps week by week, starting this term. Real skills take time; the sooner we start, the more ground we cover.
Illustrative example — every child’s report maps to a different set of skills.
PEN Education is an independent local tutoring provider — not affiliated with or endorsed by NAPLAN, ACARA or any government body.
Here’s what it doesn’t.
A made-up example for illustration — every child’s real report looks different. PEN Education is not affiliated with or endorsed by NAPLAN or ACARA.
Whether you want solid school results, or you’re aiming at OC, Selective or a scholarship, the question is the same: which skills are holding your child back, and how far are they from where they need to be? A national band can’t answer that.
Fair question. Here’s why the report on your kitchen bench can’t be the last word.
Your child sat NAPLAN in March. A full term of school has happened since — some of those gaps have closed on their own, and new ones have opened. Nobody has checked which.
NAPLAN groups “incorrect” and “did not attempt” together. A rushed or skipped question can look identical to a real gap.
NAPLAN measures against the national average. That may not be the bar you care about — keeping up in class, or getting into OC, Selective or a scholarship, are all different bars entirely.
The report arrives. The term rolls on. Nothing on that list fixes itself — someone has to sit down and work it, week after week.
Which lines on it matter, which ones don’t, and what they say about your child — in words you can use.
No jargon. Which gap is costing the most marks right now, and which ones can wait — so the work starts in the right place.
How your child thought their way through it, and how the marks were lost — so you can measure the next one against it.
What happened in your child’s head, and what happened on the paper.
Where the time went. Where the thinking stopped. A mark can’t show you either.
Not just which ones were wrong — how. Same mark, different causes, different fixes.
Bring the NAPLAN report and it gets mapped alongside both.
Some gaps shift in a few weeks. Others take a term or two of steady work. We’ll tell you which is which — and start on them now.
An accurate list of skills your child missed — four months ago. Reading it again changes nothing.
We check every skill on the report against today, find the ones it never tested, and watch how your child thinks through each question — measured against your target, not the national average.
Every gap becomes the weekly plan. We re-test at the end of each term, so you see what moved and what still needs work — no guessing, no waiting a year for the next report.
No roads to cross, undercover parking, one escalator up to class.
Matches the length of the session — no clock-watching.
You’ll know the moment your child checks in.
Every result in the report, matched to a plan — no guesswork.
“Thanks to PEN Education, my child got selected into a Selective School. Their support in English, Maths and Writing was outstanding.”
“My child studied here for both WEMT and Selective and made it into both OC and Selective. Highly recommended.”
“Individual attention to each student is the key strength of PEN. Thanks for all the guidance on our son’s education.”
Pick a year to book the diagnostic — $30.
Click any available slot to enrol directly.
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No. PEN Education is an independent local tutoring provider — we’re not affiliated with or endorsed by NAPLAN, ACARA or any government body.
Year 3 and Year 5 — the NAPLAN years for primary school. Year 4 and Year 6 are welcome too. And you don’t need to be aiming at OC or Selective: plenty of families come simply because they want their child solid in class.
No. Just bring it — the paper copy or your phone. We map it.
Yes. We can run a general diagnostic across Reading, Numeracy, Writing and Conventions of Language while you wait.
Four adaptive tests under exam conditions, and two reports: how your child thought their way through the paper, and how the marks were lost. The Term 3 Diagnostic is $30.
The full skill map, re-run every term on our student platform — every answer mapped and progress tracked skill by skill. It comes with the program.
In person only, at Level 1, Top Ryde City Shopping Centre, Ryde NSW 2112 — enter via the Pope Street car park (Level 2).
Enrolled students sit the full diagnostic each term on our student platform — every answer mapped, progress tracked skill by skill, so you can see what moved and what didn’t. It comes with the program.
It starts with the $30 Term 3 Diagnostic — every gap on the report, plus the ones it never tested for. Then we work them, week by week, term by term, until they’re closed.
Level 1, Top Ryde City Shopping Centre, Ryde NSW 2112 · Enter via Pope St car park (Level 2)
