Bonds papers 11+

[formicaqueen]

I'm new to this, very confused and have probably been too laid back! My son is in Y5 and his birthday is May. I wondered what sort of scores are considered grammar school level on the Bonds verbal reasoning 11+ (9-10) papers. Not sure if we need to be working on the age 10-11 11+ papers? My DS has completed four papers so far but the first one was low at 60% and the most recent was 90% at the 9-10 level. Any advice be be great.

[QueenQueenie]

go to the elevenplus website forum... they talk of little else there!
It's a while since I had to contend with all this 11+ business but I think by the time of the exams a dc should be scoring highly (90% ish) on the older age group papers to be doing well.

[happyAvocado]

90% and that within the time limit, every time he does them

[Marni23]

And make sure that Bond is appropriate for whatever test(s) he is doing. There are a lot of question types in there that don't appear in other papers. And questions in other papers that don't appear in Bond...

[formicaqueen]

Thanks for your help. It's really hard knowing if DH is grammar material. He is due to get mostly 5's in his SATs at the end of year 6 but is quite a plodder.

[formicaqueen]

I'm worried he might not work fast enough on the higher papers I mean.