Sutton, Wallington,Wilsons Test 1 Results

Thanks gazalw!

Got the email to Greenshaw too, hadn't really considered that, but I'm thinking that I ought to. It would be a 45min journey for him, is it going to be that much better than the local secondary?

Would love to hear back from anybody with experience of Greenshaw, I searched some threads, but they are very old.

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Well done to your son Shaq and well done for so well predicting the speedy marking and pass rate, Ladymuck....

From our experience, some of the schools would appear to be more efficient than others at sorting out the related admin, so you might find that one school was holding up the finalising of the details for round 1 of the selectivity tests....

Gazzlw, they had encouraged us to register early, promising that those who registered before 2 September would get their test location and times by 12 September. On the 12th we instead got an email saying that due to overwhelming demand they couldn't let us know until the 18th. As they had always said they were expecting 2,500 to sit, there was an assumption that this number had been exceeded causing a rethink of how the testing would be run. No worries about it all being last minute, just surprised that they had apparently fewer applicants than expected and yet still had to let the original timetable slip.

As well a predicting swift marking I would also like to point out that I also predicted closer to 800 would go through (rather than 600-700). I hereby predict that the writing exercise will be on the theme of Harry Potter.

Got the email an hour ago, whilst still at work...

Called my son and told him that I hoped he was working hard because he some second stage exams to sit...

He nearly burst my eardrums with his shout of joy!

Good luck to anyone else waiting!

Sorry didn't mean to sound 'snappy' and officious....

In what sense do you mean last minute? Do you mean in sending out the relevant exam-related information? If so, isn't it because the closing date for applications was only a few days before the actual exam - I know it was the 17th for SGS! They always do 'fly by the seat of their pants' (from our experience with DS anyway) but then they're also doing lots of other stuff related to the boys already at the schools...I don't get the impression they are sitting around twiddling their thumbs...

Looks as if first round results are coming out now. Ds's friends are all in a football match so can't compare notes yet, but I am intrigued to see how many surprise results there are.

The original blurb said that they were expecting 2,500 to sit, so given these numbers I don't quite understand why the arrangements were so last minute.

Wow - whoever predicted that the papers would have been 'done and dusted' marking-wise by Monday was obviously spot on!

Good luck....

Results are out!

Wow that's quite some increase on numbers for the tests back in 2011 when DS did them..... Of course there will be some boys (and we know a couple) who are just after Greenshaw although if they then discover they are of 'selective ability' might they not actually be tempted to do the second round tests too - we have a friend who is having just such a dilemma!

It would seem that the number deemed of 'selective ability' is roughly in line with the % from previous years....

Is this the preamble to the results then???

Good luck - you may find you get them today. I seem to recall that one of the schools sent the results out before we were expecting them.

That's early! "The Selective Eligibility Test was taken by 2285 boys and 799 have been invited back to the second stage tests."

Alas with multiple choice I know that I have no idea as to how ds did. In fairness I would not be expecting him to get through, but he wanted to sit as the majority of the boys in his class were sitting, so we went with the herd. He doesn't actually realise that there might be further tests to sit!

In terms of standardisation, you are of course correct:- if the paper was easy then there will be less effect of standardisation. Given that this seems to have been written by the schools themselves, I suspect that they can only standardise it across the population who sat it (which is what the sutton grammar mocks do, though they don't take age into account). So they will look at the September borns as a group, and the August borns as a group and see whether there was a notable difference in scores between the groups statistically. If not then they may not need to standardise much at all. It is usual for standardisation to have more of an effect for English and VR.

The numbers that I've heard quoted are 2,800, but yes, that would include girls opting for Greenshaw as well as girls taking it ahead of Nonsuch as a "mock" for English.

Unfortunately they probably can't manage to send that number of emails at exactly the same time. I'm hoping to feign ignorance at school pick-up time.