Upcoming girls’ independent SW London schools 11+ exams

Also creeping out of lurking! DD sat ISEB at Putney last weekend, and LEH today. I think she found LEH to be fairly tough actually- lots of questions! I couldn't get much out of her around the actual exam, also trying not to stress her out with too much unnecessary rehashing of the thing. I still am not quite sure what the problem solving section entailed (logic, I think?). I guess time will tell! Hope everyone else felt ok about it! At least we are done til early Jan and as this is last of our DC, we will give her a proper break over the holidays and in fact will likely just bin revision materials entirely!

Creeping out of the lurk zone. DD did LEH today and came out very happy. She did both stages for Tiffin, first one she was distraught and said that she had missed out a quarter of the maths, but by a miracle got through. Second stage was fine. Now just KGS and SHS. I swear it wasn’t this stressful for DS a couple of years ago.....
Will the LEH exam be weighted according to birth month?
We are all broken and need a week off before any further preparation!

Such a sigh of relief after finishing the last exam for December ! DD felt the VR / NVR was pretty much in line with GL which the school had sent for familiarisation and the problem solving was a lot of fun though she did miss 1 question in that .Fingers crossed for the result season now !

How did LEH go for everyone today? I am glad our pre-Christmas exams are done and dusted now! We can have a bit of a breather until January.

WT done! DD said it was ok and she finished both papers, so we'll just have to see.

She said it was easier than the CGP 11+ practice book we'd been doing, which had really given us the wobbles.

We're going to have a break from VR/ NVR for a bit, and concentrate on Maths and English for ISEB in January - and do a month of Atom just for technique.

Just popping on to say hope it’s all going well for everyone! It’s horrible, but nearly done! X

@dazedandconfused11plus, your DD sounds like mine. She could come out chatty, but once I start to ask questions she gets unsettled, so I just tend to leave it and accept whatever she volunteers.
Those doing LEH on sunday, wodjing uiu sim the best too. We aren’t doing that one.
Welcome to our newbies and delurkers

@PatoPato and @Stircrazyschoolmum, I know, right!
I’ve been on mumsnet, ( not with same UN), for over 17 years and I’ve never had a post deleted. Oh well!!! Hopefully we won’t be too long in the naughty step..
Meanwhile all the best to everyone doing ISEB tomorrow. I’m looking forward to start putting up some Christmas decorations and getting rid of all those 11+ plus books. This is last DC for me smile

Thanks @Iateallthesmarties894 for the reassurances. Would like to think that's the explanation for DD's reaction to one of the ISEBs but probably kidding myself! I did try to tease out what happened but asking too much seems to unsettle her so will just wait to the BIG REVEAL (i.e. interviews, or not) in January! At least Xmas to focus on in the meantime...

Welcome to the thread @Flossietea and @Trialsat11

And really good luck to all the DDs doing LEH on Sunday.

Re the online provider we're not allowed to mention(!) it was a nice feeling cancelling the subscription this week - yet another milestone done - and after Sunday no more VR & NVR, EVER!!!

If I said pink elephants weren’t in the WT would that get deleted too?! (Long week!!)

Love your wisdom @Iateallthesmarties894 - I needed to hear that stroy and am clinging onto it for dear life! Hope is everything right now so thank you for sharing.

@Stircrazyschoolmum & @WarmAndco3y - we are so on the naughty step. Am a bit

Surbiton sending us recipes for red cabbage just now made me laugh out loud.

Wow! I’ve never had a post deleted before and I that was for saying something wasnt in the WT! I wouldn’t have thought that helps anyone much, just reduces stress which in the current climate I would’ve thought kind.

For all those stressing out that their DDs didn't finish the ISEB math section, don't despair - its a good sign. Three years ago the only child in my DS' scholarship class to not finish was a total math genius - the type of child that was doing GCSE math for fun at the age of 9 and I think he is now some sort math Olympiad champion. He was quite upset about it at the time but subsequently found out during the scholarship process for his senior school that he had scored 142 despite not finishing - he had got every single question correct and was on the most difficult "path" but ran out of time. They have to design the test so that you don't get loads of kids getting the top score otherwise what's the point....so don't panic!

I wonder if Mumsnet have been contacted by a certain online learning provider?

Looking back on my deleted post I don't think we are allowed to say how similar parts of the ISEB are to Atom
Serious eye roll

Wow MNHQ have been super busy deleting. I've been careful not to reveal detail of exam content, have just commented on time pressure etc as DD will be 'up against' others who have yet to sit the exams.
I'm not stupid!

Hi @Flossietea!

@Yellownotblue we caned Atom. Started in May and did about a 40 mins a day in between Zoom lessons as I needed to keep DD anchored to the table instead of drifting towards tech, and luckily she really took to it. We carried on through summer but cut this back once school started and shifted the focus to mocks.
She effectively 'finished' Atom last weekend, just in time for the ISEB, the definition of finishing for us being 100% campaign areas covered with gold stars in all subtopics, then in the final week the same questions kept popping up several times in the mocks. Once this happened I realised there's nowhere left to go with it for us.

I do think it is brilliant. They must have swept the competition away and are probably creaming it in (wish I'd come up with the business model) but I was lucky in that DD enjoyed it. I wouldn't say she particularly increased her scores by using it and I don't think it is a necessity .
For me it was simply convenient. I am lazy at both setting work & marking it. I could just say to her 'do some Atom' or set some custom practise and she'd do it, it was marked, then she could review & learn from her errors. I found that a dream & loved the stats.

@Yellownotblue, we only started using Atom learning in October during the half term break. Our schools announced they would be using ISEB sometime just before then.
DD, likes the lessons, but I’ll say we mostly do the books.
She does 1 mock of each subject a week.

@soniamumsnet, thanks for your post, I don’t understand how my post was contentious.

Anyway, not long to go for us, I don’t know the content of ISEB as DD hasn’t done it yet. I am looking forward to a lovely Christmas break.

Have been reading this post avidly so thought I’d say hello. DD is applying to PHS, G&L, LEH, SHS, FHSS, WHS and NHEHS. I know that’s a lot of but four of those are on ISEB so we figured we might as well. I haven’t actually been able to visit WHS or FHSS but have heard good things about them, although to be honest WHS is probably our lowest preference as it’s a tricky commute from where we live.
DD did ISEB earlier this week so that’s over and done with. She said it went OK but I don’t really know what (if anything) can be read into that! It’s over and done with anyway! Just got LEH this weekend and then Surbiton and FHSS in Jan.
Does anybody know much about the consortium exam for FHSS? I haven’t been able to discover much about it.

Hello all ,

Have been a silent reader of this discussion . Applying to the usuals like WHS , PHS , Surbiton etc. All done and dusted with ISEB and just can’t wait for wrap up LEH .
Does anyone know what LEH problem solving will target ? Anyone who would have done previous LEH interviews and would have got some sort of problem solving

@WarmAndco3y and @PatoPato, may I ask how long did your DDs do Atom for? DS (year 5) started doing Atom a few months ago, but he seems quite bored by it. I’m wondering if I should stop for a few months, do other stuff (bond books etc) and pick it up again after Easter, or even in the summer. We’ve only been doing the Atom curriculum, not the mock tests yet, as he’s only sitting the tests next year. Are the mock tests good?

I’ve also enjoyed looking at DD’s dashboard and transcripts on Atom learning. I’ll miss that actually. We have stopped our subscription, which will run out in a couple of weeks.
A friend says her DD enjoys it so much and it has instilled discipline and a good work ethic, so she will continue right through to year 7