SW London boys, 11+ grammars and independents

It's much easier to gauge for the girls, who get their scores. Poor boys really do have a long wait until March! Still, it means they all start without a pre-conceived rank order, which I think is a good thing.

DS pointed out that whilst he has met the criteria and seemingly rather happy with himself, as the ranking is not released there is no way of calculating the probability to get in ! with 836 hopeful for 135 spaces... he is not sure that was news worthy... thoughts?

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Thank you, @PitNicking, he is was crying his hear out last night, knowing that the results are coming today and worrying he didn't pass, so we can now have some time to just enjoy being a family again.

Wilson's results came in less than 20 min after. He didn't pass, but only just by less than 10 ponts (475 was the pass mark, he got high 460s), so I am not upset at the slightest, as we now have to excellent grammars to chose from.

DS didn't get an interview at City. Waiting for LU results but not feeling hopeful - thankfully the local state school is good and we might have sent him there anyway, so I'm trying not to stress too much. Would be nice to know, though!

Ah well done GrammarHopeful's DS! That's wonderful news. Your DS much be so made up

@EnolanotAlone We've not done a single thing since the ISEB! Perhaps naively, I didn't think there was much to do now the grammars and the ISEB were out of the way.

Do you have many more exams coming up or is this for the interviews?

YES!

breathes a sigh of huge relief

DS has met SGS's required standard. He is exstatic, having missed St Olave's Stage 2 cut-off by one point last week.

Hope today brings good news to others who were waiting!

Sutton Grammar School results are out:

1021 candidates sat the second stage test and 836 met the required standard. For candidates who met the required standard, no information regarding their marks will be given to parents. Please note that, due to over-subscription, meeting the required standard does not guarantee an offer of a place at our school.

Curious to know how people’s DS are holding up? Post ISEB and a couple of interviews, which keep us nicely humming along til end of term, we have seemed to hit a brick wall - motivation now is almost at an all time low. Whilst there is reason for celebration upon hopefully receiving 2nd round invitations /interviews, we are equally filled with utter dread of going back into the revision book trenches? Has this years revised 11+ process been stretched out too far and will have an impact on their mental health?

@realitybites1, emails for St Paul's Boys 13+ second stage are out today. Hope it's good news for your DS!

St Paul’s Boys emails were sent out this afternoon for second round stage.

DS felt a bit better about City than ISEB. But even before that he has been tired of us asking that question so I don’t quite trust his response. He’s probably telling what we want to hear. What I know (and am sure it holds true for many) is that he cannot wait to get this over with, one way or the other and get back to a normal life :)

@imalondoner. Don't know about SPBS, sorry. Perhaps end of this week going by the plans of a couple of other schools plus the Sutton grammars (= tomorrow). We applied to City too. Well done on getting through to the second round. How did your son find the exam?

I heard from City Boys (11+) and Westminster (13+) last Friday inviting my DS for the 2nd round and interviews. Kings have said they will let us know in January if our DS made to the next level.

Has anyone heard from St Paul’s Boys either for 11+ or 13+ yet? Any idea when they would email to let us know? The website says mid-December so I am hoping this week but was curious to know if anyone had heard yet.

Agree, we sat the ISEB at the end of November and feel like it was a really long time ago.
We practised with Atom and thought DS was doing ok but when he sat the actual exam he finished early! I’m not taking it as a good sign given how his friends who all have done extremely well and may be offered spaces at the grammars just about finished the ISEB with hardly any time time left 😐

Thanks @PitNicking I sincerely hope your right, over two weeks since ISEB is now playing serious havoc with ones sanity and ability to see reason.

Oh and DS sat exam at Hampton (not ISEB) and had interview there and no box was given on the day. We can’t read too much into these things as it’s all second guessing.

We received a yellow “Hello from Hampton” box too but my DS applied for the advanced place 10+, sat exam in Nov and secured a place to start in Sept 2022. I ate the Skittles, it was a nice touch. Hopefully the box is positive news for you but for those who haven’t had one yet, please don’t read too much into it as hopefully your boxes are on their way. The comms from Hampton has been excellent and even after DS got his offer, they’ve made a real effort of staying in touch. Their Admissions team are a friendly and professional bunch.

I think it’s the post @BookShark! If I had to guess whether getting a box was a positive sign or a negative one, I’d say positive but I also think the most likely scenario is that they’ve sent them to everyone who didn’t sit at Hampton and the post is shite so not everyone has received them yet.

Either way, it’s not long before we’ll know for sure and can abandon reading the tea leaves

Argh! This is why I should stay away from Mumsnet until it's all done. I'm now trying to read something into the fact DS hasn't received a box, despite the fact it's probably just the post being rubbish. Hurry up Friday!

All shall be revealed later this week, but I tend to agree with @PitNicking!

DS didn’t sit it at Hampton either and didn’t get a box! I think it can only be a positive sign to get one - seems more likely that they’d send things to prospective students than ones they weren’t inclined to invite back so I wouldn’t worry @Happyfour

@Jumpalicious Yep, it was ISEB too. We did the opposite of you, Trinity, but not Whitgift.

Also, same as you re Hampton: DS sat his ISEB at KCS.

Hopefully your box is on the way @jumpalicious! Seems strange to send it now when some boys are days from getting a no!