Urgent please share! children sitting the 11+ exam Slough Consortium (Kendrick) on Saturday can cheat

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Kent children do the 11+ in school. Out of county candidates do it on a Saturday. Imagine the possibilities for 'cheating' there .

As a matter of interest, what happens with late takers for Kendrick etc? Presumably like everywhere else they use the same test as to do anything else would be expensive & (once again) not fair as a different test might be easier or harder. Also problems with standardisation. I think that's much more of a cheating issue as tutors will have had the opportunity to quiz many pupils & have a much better idea of the content. But as with the OP it would affect a tiny number so overall may well be irrelevant.

Massa is right - round here, like so much of England the grammar system is a completely alien one. I'm more concerned about the bodged changes to the national curriculum and how that will affect my dd.

"This is a national story with far reaching interest."

Given most areas of the country have comprehensive systems and aren't about to regress to a tripartite one, I can't agree with that statement.

You told us that Kendrick have the list. That suggests whoever gave them the list thought it was relevant. And you continue to assume that the words you have been given were correct which is by no means guaranteed.

Dear God. Somebody hand the OP a grip

proved in a court of law or proved in an internal examination?

Am not familiar with the area but a google suggests that each grammar school has their own test.

Do you have to pay for your child to sit the test?

Good luck taking a complaint of "Mal Administration" to law re these 11 plus papers.

The judge'll get a good laugh anyway.

I am not sure how you think having words from the Bucks paper is in any way relevant to the Slough consortium. They use different tests, albeit from the same provider. It is by no means guaranteed the test will include antonyms at all, let alone the same ones used in the Bucks paper.

I'm not sure that the child can be relied upon to remember what was in the test.
My own DC sat similar highly competitive tests and were successful, to the extent that we were notified by HT of the target schools that they had done exceptionally well. However, when we collected them after the tests and asked them they couldn't remember anything useful.
The more real danger I would suggest is that teachers have access to the info in advance of the second test. Mostly teachers are law-abiding people, but even saints can be tempted if they 'have a dog in the fight' as the saying goes. In state schools I have been in, as a teacher and other professional capacity, I have seen blatant cheating in GCSE Controlled Assessments, so teachers are not above giving some 'help' in some circs. I'm surprised that in the new article none of the parents raised that as a concern - instead suggesting outlandish scenarios with twins/cousins.

To be honest there is no limit to the steps some parents would be willing to take to get a child into these grammar schools. It is like getting a private education for free. Some parents have been paying for tutoring for their kids for years and will do anything and everything they can to get a competitive advantage. Now I am not saying that it is right (far from it!) but I do think in such a fiercely competitive situation the administration of the test must be scrupulously fair and seen to be fair, with no information overlap possible between those sitting it. There is no doubt that snippets of valuable information can be shared given the time-lag between schools/sittings. I honestly believe that close-knit, extended families and friendship groups will share information to get children in using whatever means. All that needs to be done to resolve is to have an effective quarantine procedure. I can see lots of appeals afoot! Good luck….

To be honest there is no limit to the steps some parents would be willing to take to get a child into these grammar schools. It is like getting a private education for free. Some parents have been paying for tutoring from their kids for years and will do everything they can to get a competitive advantage. Now I am not saying that it is right (far from it!) but I do think that in such a competitive exam situation the administration of the test must be scrupulously fair and seen to be fair, with no information overlap possible between those sitting it. There is no doubt that snippets of valuable information can be shared given the time lag between schools/sittings of this. I honestly believe close-knit extended, families & communities will share information to get children in using whatever means. All that needs to be done is to put in place an effective quarantine procedure to resolve it. I can see lots of appeals afoot! Good luck all

You are assuming that your informant has got the words absolutely correct. You are also assuming that all the questions ask for antonyms.

This type of question is normally of the form "A is to B as C is to D, E, F, G or H". You only need the antonym if B is the antonym of A. It may not be. So you need all 8 words to be sure of getting the right answer. For example, if the question was "Prison is to Crime as Pain is to ..." and all you had was Pain you may think the answer is Pleasure, which would be wrong.