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Would you still pass the 11+?

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AlpinePony · 15/09/2011 12:07

This is kind of fun: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7773974.stm

It's been 22 years for me and I've not been tutored for this test this afternoon Wink - I got 13/15. One of those was inexcusable and I'm ashamed of myself, the other I didn't have a danny about!

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meditrina · 17/09/2011 15:57

Yr6 DS got 13/15 in 8 minutes.

purpleknittingmum · 16/09/2011 13:43

I think my brain is a bit messed up, I can remember one of the question in mine, or it may have been a practise one, and you had to put the word that was opposite to the one listed. One word was sweet, I put ugly! Blush

MillyR · 16/09/2011 13:28

In the actual 11 plus, you have to answer 17 questions in 10 minutes (85 in 50 minutes for the whole VR section of the test). Some of the questions in the eleven plus are the very long code questions not shown in this link, that take longer to answer than the examples given. So I think taking longer than 5 minutes to answer these questions wouldn't leave you long enough to deal with the codes and other more time consuming questions. And these questions were easier than the ones of the same type in the real 11 plus, particularly the number based questions.

purpleknittingmum · 16/09/2011 13:20

9/15 in just under 6 mins, bit bad!

TobyLeWolef · 16/09/2011 13:18

I got 14/15. I think they're hard because it's difficult in some of the questions to work out exactly what it is that they want you to do.

My son scraped through the 11+ last year, and my daughter has just done hers this year. I couldn't help but feel for her when I was doing these as I know how her brain works and she'll have struggled.

MillyR · 16/09/2011 12:58

I think that is easier than the real eleven plus.

UsAndTwo · 16/09/2011 12:25

14/15 in 4 minutes but just got DD through 11+ so it is only 1 year since I last looked at these type of questions.

changejustforyou · 16/09/2011 12:22

15/15 in 2min 25

notcitrus · 16/09/2011 11:18

13/15, though I gave up early. Looking at a previous paper would have reminded me of how those number puzzles work (worked for the civil service exams).

I did the Common Entrance 11+ 26 years ago and passed at scholarship level despite having never heard of the 11+ until being confronted with the papers!

christmasmum · 16/09/2011 10:54

But what's the pass mark?!

gramercy · 16/09/2011 10:33

I passed 11+ 35 years ago Blush

Got them all right except the last one. Had to give up on that. I started getting that old exam panic feeling where something's swimming before your eyes and all I could see were those two 18s in the middle.

purpleknittingmum · 16/09/2011 07:28

I will try it later, I never passed it the first time round!

circular · 16/09/2011 07:24

14/15, would have been about 7 mind, but wasted the rest of the time trying to puzzle out the other one.

Passed 11+ 39 years ago, remember it being much easier then.

DD 14 scored 9. Not sure if this should worry us or not. Last time she saw anything remotely like this was 7+ entry. In top sets for everything.

senua · 16/09/2011 00:31

It makes it very easy if they give you suggested answers!

So what is the 'pass' score?

cornsylk · 15/09/2011 20:29

talker it isn't that easy at all

complexnumber · 15/09/2011 19:34

13 after about 5 pints.

(I think I have that the right way round)

Talker2010 · 15/09/2011 19:33

Very easy ... is that how easy the 11+ is ... seriously ?

Never took it ... 37 years ago

Oh and ... 15/15

maxpower · 15/09/2011 19:28

14/15, not bad as I only took 6 mins and I was helping my 9mo DS stand up the entire time!

bigTillyMint · 15/09/2011 19:19

13 in 4 1/2mins. I passed the original 36 years agoBlush, but with no tutoring as I went to a rough old primary school and it wasn't the done thing!

neversaydie · 15/09/2011 18:35

Full marks, but it took me 8.5 minutes. In my defence, it was 42 years ago that I took (and passed) the 11+. And yes, we were tutored to within an inch of our lives!

cornsylk · 15/09/2011 18:29

those questions are really easy - far easier than the practice papers that my ds is doing at the moment

RedHelenB · 15/09/2011 18:21

DD12 got 10

dd 10 got 6

Neither had seen an 11+ paper before so no tutoring lol!! TBF dd12 I would have expected to pass a grammar school test.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 15/09/2011 17:29

15/15 - I love these sort of questions Blush

TalkinPeace2 · 15/09/2011 15:59

jan
yes, but in reply, I've not had tutoring Wink

janinlondon · 15/09/2011 15:56

Am I allowed to say (very very quietly) that those are nowhere near as hard as the current ones.....?

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