11 plus support thread

Oh, I think I’ve misunderstood how this works. Do KCC send an email?
Good thing it wasn’t me sitting the test!

Kent Test people - is the KCC portal showing for your child
Status:
LA Has Received the Registration

There’s nothing to indicate that it’s actually been taken. Presuming info will be updated later, but this is our first time so a bit apprehensive of the system.

Thank you and good luck to all others still waiting.

@meredosoleil I hope they get what they need. 🤞🤞🤞

Congrats @BumbledBee - now our Dds can celebrate and relax and get on with lots of fun stuff in year six.

Got results this morning - dd got a good score and we are in catchment so am very hopeful we will get an offer in March. Delighted as it is my dd’s preferred school. Good luck to others getting results this morning.

Thanks @Meredusoleil 👍

Is think it’s buried in one of the long chats. Apprentice tallies with previous years as in always just before they break for half term.

Thanks, Lockdowndramaqueen. I did look at the 11+ forum but only found Tiffin chat in the most recent threads.

According to a parent on the 11+ forum who rang Nonsuch could be any time this week up until Friday. Wish they would hurry up - am fed up waiting now.

Any one knows when Sutton Girls results come out? I was hoping for yesterday 😬

Got ds' score this morning (Warwickshire) it's really good but not enough, even for the waiting list, of his preferred school. But it's only 2 off so I don't think he's going to take it well. Had it been lower I think he'd take it better but knowing that only a couple of years ago he'd have stood a chance will make it hard for him, if that makes sense? That being said, given what's happened over the last 2 years I'm incredibly proud of him for trying.

I’m so sorry to hear it @WithCatLikeTread - it’s such a tough thing to understand how competitive these exams are. Well done your dc for being brave enough to put herself forward for this and to do the work. As @ElvenDreamer says it will stand them in good stead. I have a older dc who did not go through the 11+ and her excellent comp is full of kids who narrowly missed. That work they did preparing is so helpful when they start secondary and many of those children are doing amazingly.

Congratulations and commiserations to everyone getting results today - it’s going to be an emotional weekend. Trying to stay calm for next week when our results land.

Comiserations to those who didn't get what they wanted at this stage, remind your wonderful kids that it's just another twist in the road and all the things they've learnt will stand them in good stead. They are all super stars for even going on this journey.

Good results for us here, although as with everything, unless I know what everyone else got I don't know if it's good enough! However historical results of last few years suggest we are comfortable so finger crossing until March now.

DD didn’t pass 😞

In my heart I always thought she would, but the last few months have shaken that and I was right to be worried.

We’ll tell her to say she nearly passed. But she didn’t. She was quite a long way off.

Hopefully we’ll get into our catchment secondary and I’m sure she’ll be fine there.
It’s just getting through the next few months at school with those that did vs those that didn’t.
I feel bad for her.

Well done to everybody who's had good news and unmumsnetty hugs to those who haven't.

We got ours today, DD has ranked comfortably for a place at her 1st choice school. Even better is so have her 2 BFFs. I'm so glad it's over now!

oh I know - stepson also didn't get into grammar and just graduated from Cambridge with law degree, so he's a very handy example to have around! Just wish I could have done better for her.

unfortunately a poor result for us. DD doesn't even know the results are coming out today so we have a bit of time to manage it, I think. I feel crushingly guilty as we couldn't afford a tutor for her and the problem was always the actual structure of the questions etc, not the questions themselves, which I think a tutor would have helped so much with. Very sad here this morning.

Phew. Results landed and the last of my offspring will be dispatched in September to the school of her choice.

Thank. Goodness. We. Are. Done. With. 11+

The 11+ journey is on a par with potty training as a stressful life phase entirely determined by a small and sometimes irrational person. And we are done: hurrah!

Tinged with a bit of sadness as a couple of my friends didn’t get such happy news with their dc’s results and I know it can be a matter of only a few marks, so thinking there but for the grace of God…

Well done to those with good results already!

Waiting for tomorrow….!

Think we have to log into the website(CSSE), will I be able to remember the details?!

Also, getting DH to do it as DD made me promise I wouldn’t look until we got home from school together 🙄 so getting him to look, and whisper to me. Then I can play innocent when I pick her up 🤫 at this point I am expecting a fail but she came out so confident I feel bad for her.

🤞 for everyone!

Thanks a lot @BumbledBee and @ElvenDreamer. Best wishes to you too!