Missed Tiffin Girls exam application date. Any hope?

[BicycleRider]

Hi. I've missed the date for registering DD for the Tiffin Girls exam. Just wondering if anyone else has missed it and still been able to do the exam or has any info on it? Thank you very much!

[TRL]

No experience of this but in their admission arrangements online it says:

3.2.4
SIFs received after the SIF Deadline and
before the Stage One Test will be treated as
late but may in exceptional circumstances
be accepted if received at least three
working days before the Stage One Test day.

You can but contact the school and explain your exceptional circumstances and see what they say....

[GeorgeTheThird]

Erm. Call the school?

[Bountybarsyuk]

Immediately contact the school and throw yourself on their mercy. It can't hurt to ask. You will be asked to give a reason though, so make it a good one.

[BicycleRider]

I have called the school, they said nope. Was just hoping against hope that someone else had been this stupid and managed to get round it.

[BicycleRider]

Thank you so much! Will see if I can get anywhere with this. Am really kicking myself.

[nocampinghere]

but wasn't 2012 the year they randomly moved the deadline to apply to July and lots of people missed it. complained that it hadn't been properly and clearly communicated?

[nocampinghere]

but also in 2012 they didn't have the two stage test so could test late applicants.

now the first stage is on 4 october (so i can't believe they can't include you, you're not that late) but after that date how can they include late applicants - it would be very unfair to put them straight into the top 400 stage 2 test

[nocampinghere]

all good points tiggytape

BicycleRider if i were you i would tell them you are going to name them on your CAF and that legally they cannot exclude late applicants. they might just give in.

[Keepingontop]

I don't know what to say to this, this has the longest deadline for each academic year for application and to miss the deadline is inconceivable at this stage. Maybe it's not meant to be and focus on what you have applied for. Kind of others to give you options this late stage, but really there aren't any. If you want your child at the school you would have completed the application when requested. If you can't then it's just not for you

[nocampinghere]

bit harsh keepingontop

application deadline for state schools is 31st October
i don't think it is "inconceivable" to not realise Tiffin has their own much earlier one.

[Blu]

"Kind of others to give you options this late stage, but really there aren't any. If you want your child at the school you would have completed the application when requested. If you can't then it's just not for you"

This explains so much about the demography in selective and super selective schools.

I have no idea why the OP missed the deadline but how would a parent automatically know that schools like Tiffin have a timescale completely outside the usual CAF process, unless they have friends who are in the know? Unless they are at a school gate where other parents are thinking about selective places? Apparently if you are not in those circles 'it just isn't for you'. Most schools are only just starting to do their Open Days.

And clearly, according to Tiggytape who is knowledgeable rather than opinionated, there ARE reasons why the OP could be admitted late.

OP; I hope you do get somewhere. Whatever your reasons. Because even if you are a feckless drunk and used the form to roll a spliff rather than posting it, I don't see why CHILDREN should suffer because parents are not of the type that tiffin is 'for you'.

Can you tell I am cross ?

[SuzyLucy]

Agree with you blu.

keepingontop, you couldn't have sounded more of a smug, sanctomonious, supercilious twat if you'd tried. Get over yourself.

Good luck OP.

[nocampinghere]

maybe keepingontop thinks Kingston is like Kent and ALL the grammar school tests are done by now. Tiffin is a complete anomaly in LB Kingston & Richmond where most of the children come from.


or maybe she has a not bright enough child applying and is putting off any competition she can

let us know how you get on BicycleRider