Would you pass the old 11+?

[Berries]

try here to find out.
Can't you tell I'm avoiding the housework

[anniediv]

I got 74% I definitely got all the missing number ones wrong though, I think, as I'm hopeless at them.

[Iklboo]

I got 84% (67 out of 80). Think I buggered up on the who beat who round

[puff]

I passed the original 11 plus (30 years ago OMG )

[Iklboo]

Puff - so did I (27 years ago just before they started phasing it out I think) and then refused to go to the grammar school [regretful emoticon]

[puff]

why did you refuse Iklboo?

[anniediv]

I did the 11+ in 1981, and I don't recall any of those missing number questions. They are impossible for me, my brain just can't compute them at all. I too declined the place at grammar school!!

[Iklboo]

Cos I was bloody bloody stupid! I was one of only a small handful at junior school who passed it - none of my 'friends' did and I was adamant I wanted to go to the same school as them...

I still got 9 very good O levels at the comprehensive school I went to, but I still wonder if things would have been different if I'd gone to the grammar school

[anniediv]

Same reason for me ikiboo, also the local comprehensive was mixed and the grammar was girls only . I think I have come out of it just as well as I would if I had gone to the grammar school.

[Gobbledigook]

I passed the original 11+ (22 years ago!!)

[littlerach]

I passed it when I was 11. And went to grammar school.


Really don't know if I'd manage it now

[coderoo]

yes
i did
but at 14

[puff]

I went to the local girls grammar (very convenient as it was just across the road!). It was ok, I enjoyed it, did well, but the academic focus was very narrow IMO. One of my friends was one of the v few who did not go on to university after 6th form. She went to journalism college instead, which was thought to be rather "alternative" by the teaching staff. She did really well and it was right for her, but anything other than uni to study medicine, English Lit, Maths, History etc just wasn't encouraged.

[eldestgirl]

I got 86%. Such a tedious test though!! Not sure I would have passed at 11.

[eldestgirl]

I went to a comp too.

[LunarSea]

93% (74/80) . But I didn't go to grammar school because I was in the first year that went through the comprehensive system where I lived. Which was a disaster as the interpretation of "comprehensive" turned out to be "totally mixed ability throughout", no setting or anything. The previously secondary modern school also stuck to it's old maximum of 5 O levels, and compulsory typewriting and "office studies" for girls rule! So I ended up doing more O levels alongside the A's in 6th form to bring up the number to something approaching what the old grammar schools would have offered as standard.

Even more annoying was that I could have taken it a year early, but my mother decided against it, and then of course the system changed - but it didn't stop my mother telling everyone that I "hadn't got into Nxxxxx" (the grammar school). She's a bit funny about preferring to focus on my failures than my successes - post A levels everyone was informed that I "only got a B in computing" so everyone though I'd only passed one, and forgot to mention the other 3 A's!

A bit surprised on that test that the grammar pass mark was only 38/80 actually. What proportion of kids went to grammar at the time this test was set?

[silverbirch]

I got 98% !

[Mercy]

I took (and passed) the 11+ over 30 years ago. Had a quick look at the link and my brain just shut down! All those maths questions scare me

[silverbirch]

I remember doing the real thing too in 1977 -
that makes me feel REALLY old!

[Flamesparrow]

79% with crying children in the background (throwing tantrums, not just ignoring em for the test ). Skipped the first 2 missing numbers one because my brain wouldn't get round them, then caught on a bit!

Passed in '91

[BonyM]

I did pass it (the original).

I'm old you see .

[lou33]

i passed it to go to grammar school, so yes

[milward]

Passing the test didn't mean you'd get a place though! still would have the head teacher report & would depend on how many places were on offer. Very unfair imho

[notagrannyyet]

I missed the 11+ by 1 year. Is it true that the pass mark needed by a boy to get into grammar was less than that required for a girl to get in.

I was told this by an old family friend who was an headmaster at a local junior school. Apparently boys needed 43% to get a place at the local mixed grammar, but a girl would need a 45% pass to get into the same school.

[sugarfree]

91% (preen preen)

[Berries]

I got 96% (76/80), but missed out on real one by 2 years. Ended up going to the first year of the new middle schools and HATED it with a passion.
While I think the maths type questions are hard, there are definite rules you can follow to find out the answers. I think some of the questions on the current 11+ make you think harder, even if the maths is easier iyswim.