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Upcoming girls’ independent SW London schools 11+ exams

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Oceane11plus · 08/07/2020 11:50

Are there any parents on this board with DDs due to sit independent school exams in January? If so where do you stand in terms of shortlisting schools, revisions etc Are you planning to do any work over the summer?

We are still in the process of fine tuning the list of schools... We will probably end up applying to about 4/5 schools, of which 2 are in the same consortium which means 3/4 exams max.
As far as I am aware, our prep has not recommended any specific revisions for the summer, but I was still planning to make her write some maths, English and VR/NVR past papers, as 2 months without doing anything seems too much so close to the exams. I was thinking of making her do one paper a week in each subject, on top of reading and boosting her vocabulary, with two weeks in August without any paper/formal work.

Any tips on what we should be doing at this stage and over summer holidays, notably from parents with past experience, would be super useful!

Thank you

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Letter79 · 20/12/2020 11:30

Do you think Spgs will still have the exam on 4th Jan because of Tier4?

LittleBlackBear · 20/12/2020 11:05

@Iateallthesmarties894

Has anyone heard anything about the sports scholarships at Wimbledon high school? Spent ages sorting out the video submissions and I thought they were going to request references shortly after that? All seems to have gone quiet.

Also wondering how the recent announcement is going to impact pretests in January? Some schools are still planning to have DCs on site?

We had a letter from Sydenham HS on Friday with details about their on site assessments for Tuesday 5 January. DD also due to sit ISEB at JAGS later that week.

Obviously all arranged pre tier 4 but I do wonder if/how they can still go ahead..

Brot64 · 20/12/2020 10:59

@dazedandconfused11plus thank you, it's a step forward in what is a stressful process. Cannot wait for all of it to end. We are also awaiting Putney and CL no news from either. Have already scrolled my email in panic but glad to know we didn't miss anything.

dazedandconfused11plus · 20/12/2020 10:38

Congratulations to @Brot64 and @ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson on your DDs passing to the interview round for LU, that is amazing news!!

@Iateallthesmarties894 sorry can't help you on sports scholarships at Wimbledon.

Does anyone know when we will hear from Putney? I have 25th January for the interviews - but now I can't find that date on this website, so am I imagining this?! The date does seem later than the other schools though...? (obviously that's assuming DD gets that far!)

ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson · 19/12/2020 23:54

My DD also has an interview at LU on 5th! Still waiting to hear from City of London girls - they’re really dragging out the process.

Brot64 · 19/12/2020 18:25

@WarmAndco3y thank you. Yes it appears she did well enough for their expectations. Glad we can have a short break and enjoy the Christmas break.

Iateallthesmarties894 · 19/12/2020 17:30

Has anyone heard anything about the sports scholarships at Wimbledon high school? Spent ages sorting out the video submissions and I thought they were going to request references shortly after that? All seems to have gone quiet.

Also wondering how the recent announcement is going to impact pretests in January? Some schools are still planning to have DCs on site?

WarmAndco3y · 18/12/2020 21:09

@Brot64 welcome to the thread. Well done you your DD. I assume she has done well enough on the ISEB exam to be called back fir an interview. Wishing her all the best with that.
We are just looking to enjoy the next 2 weeks, I haven’t had the heart to tell DD that there is more to come with Alleyn’s. We are just relaxing for now.

Brot64 · 17/12/2020 20:10

Late to the thread but glad to have found it. DD also sat a few of the schools mentioned here for the ISEB. Got an email this afternoon from Latymer, interview on the 5th of January. Somewhat relieved (although it's only the interview for now) as she came out of the ISEB feeling very defeated.

WarmAndco3y · 17/12/2020 19:51

@stellagibbons JAGS don’t resume until the 11th of January anyway, so I assume the exam dates were deliberately set for 6th & 7th.

Would really be interesting @dazedandconfused11plus

stellagibbons · 17/12/2020 19:23

@dazedandconfused11plus Who knows? DD is sitting the ISEB at the start of January at JAGs, it's the week before they start back, so I would hope won't be affected.

dazedandconfused11plus · 17/12/2020 19:19

I wonder if the latest news about secondary schools delaying the physical return to school will impact exams due to take place onsite in early January??? Will be interesting to see how this plays out...

Flossietea · 17/12/2020 11:42

I heard back from Surbiton that they will send the missing photos today by email and also put hard copies of them and the instructions in the post.

I also asked them whether we needed to upload the photo of the written work in the exam time or if we would have extra time at the end of the exam to upload it. They confirmed there will be an extra ten minutes at the end of the exam time in which we can upload the photo of the writing.

montlieu · 16/12/2020 22:35

I find that Alleyn’s announcement is coming
in late tbh.
I thought they just had the interview left, not the creative writing and group activities.
Also late in the month, I was hoping it would be done a little earlier than that.
How are they going to run group activities in person in 6 weeks from now ?

dinosaurinmybelly · 16/12/2020 22:30

Yes Allen’s have been a bit behind the other schools this year in adapting to the current situation. They were late to provide virtual presentations and I’m not surprised they are announcing these extra assessments at this late stage.

WarmAndco3y · 16/12/2020 21:10

Email from Alleyn’s tonight explaining the rest of the process.
Seems there is still an interview stage with creative writing and group activities
For academic scholarships 3 face to face interviews. Seems quite a lot!! Shock

Trialsat11 · 16/12/2020 20:06

Thanks @Singingrain1223.

Congrats @WarmAndco3y on ur DD’s result . I checked the eleven plus website and seems she will just be in for a place at Nonsuch or Wallington as per the previous years .

Let’s see what the indies come up with but it is such a relief to see a positive result afternoon the pretest woes

WarmAndco3y · 16/12/2020 18:33

@Trialsat11 well done to your DD. We got an email today too that DD has passed an eligible to apply.
I don’t know what information is, but on there are usually lots of discussions around this on the elevenplus website

LittleBlackBear · 16/12/2020 17:56

Thanks for clarifying! I’m easily confused with all the acronyms 🤪

But while I’m here worth asking, has anyone heard from Sydenham High School? We’ve not heard from them since October...

Singingrain1223 · 16/12/2020 17:30

@Trialsat11 , on the elevenplusexams.co.U.K. Website in the Surrey section there is a link to the nonsuch school website for historic data (Nonsuch thread)

Flossietea · 16/12/2020 17:17

@LittleBlackBear no Surbiton High School. Sorry!

Trialsat11 · 16/12/2020 16:59

Though this is an Indy school thread , does anyone know what was the cutoff for Nonsuch OOC last year .

DD cleared the second stage but not sure her score is good enough for OOC

LittleBlackBear · 16/12/2020 16:13

Is SHS Sydenham High School? If so we’ve not had anything yet.

Flossietea · 16/12/2020 16:00

@Mimijoyx so glad it’s not just me!

Mimijoyx · 16/12/2020 15:58

@Flossietea We received the email and I noticed the photos are missing too. I will email back and ask.