Hello, I really hope someone with experience of this system might be able to give me advice - I don't know if we have a fighting chance or not.
Ds didn't pass the Kent test in Y6 and he's currently home schooled (he's 12 in May). We did appeal to a local grammar on the grounds of his dyslexia, which is becoming milder in terms of how he manages school work, and we failed the appeal.
Last week he took an entrance test to the same school, which was CAT tests (verbal, non verbal, quantitative) on the computer, plus a maths and Eng paper which were written.
We found out on Sat that he didn't get through, and he was absolutely gutted but I assumed it was pointless to appeal again.
Yesterday I emailed asking for his scores, just for our information, and they really surprised me.
Basically they want top 25% scores to offer a place.
His CAT results were on the 99th and 95th centile for VR and NVR, and 78th for QR. I nearly fell over.
The English and Maths were not adequate (though I don't know what the pass marks were, and it gives a % and a grade - maths 24%, Eng grade 4 - I don't understand what these mean).
Now I can see he found the computer based exams easy (and told me they were) and the written work very hard, partly I think because we hadn't covered a lot of the maths in our work at home (my fault - we were going over the basic stuff again) and partly as his written work is generally pretty untidy and he has poor processing and handwriting.
Could we stand a chance to fight the decision on the grounds of these issues he has (we have a report about them from last year from a specialist) or would we just be getting his hopes up all over again for nothing?
Any thoughts really appreciated.
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HetzelNatur · 06/05/2015 05:52
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