2023 Eleven Plus support thread

Best of luck to all those getting results tomorrow. We’ve got to wait until Wednesday.

Good luck to those getting their results tomorrow.
Another week to wait here 🙁

Ours don’t arrive in Bucks until after 4pm via email 😰

Yep GL in Bexley but Kent next door is also GL and their results are due by 18th even though Kent Tests were before Bexley tests.

Bexley Appeals:
There will be an opportunity for all Head Teachers to request a review of the score achieved in the test, but this will not happen until after the results have been published and after the closing date for secondary school applications to be submitted. Details of how to appeal will be sent to the parents/carers of all those deemed non-selective, and it is your responsibility to discuss this with their Head Teacher. Details of this process will also be published on the Council’s website. If your child is not deemed selective, but you think there may be grounds for a review of the decision, you should still include a preference for a grammar school on your application form and then discuss with your child’s Head Teacher whether a request for a review should be made. Please note that selective decisions will only be changed by the Independent Review Panel in exceptional circumstances, the Panel’s decision is final and there is no appeal process to their decision.

I have to wait for the post. UGH!

The Bexley website says results "by" 17th October so theoretically could be early.

I do think it's the Chis and Sid site saying it's the 13th that has us all thinking they'll come early. Apparently usually come on a Friday too but obviously this is first GL year.

I don't think Bexley have said they're sending them to HTs earlier than parents.

I'll be staring at my inbox all day tomorrow just in case.

Good luck everyone.

I have also heard tomorrow for Bexley - eek!!

Yes it’s GL in Bexley - the first year it’s been GL so not sure how the internal appeals work and when the heads get the results?

GL here and results are sent out tomorrow.

Is Bexley GL? Makes sense they may get them tomorrow if it’s the same exam and exam board as Bucks?

Good luck to everyone getting results tomorrow.

We are in Bexley too. Chis n Sid has the 13th on their website but LB Bexley has the 17th. I have heard that the primary schools will know tomorrow but I don't know that for sure and I don't know why as they don't do headteacher appeals at this stage.

We are in Bexley and at my DD’s school they all seem convinced that the results are coming tomorrow- anyone else heard this?
Good luck for tomorrow Bucks!

How is everyone feeling tonight? Good luck tomorrow for all those in Bucks.

In our area of Bucks, the results are out via email this Friday from 4pm but the headteachers get the results the day before to prepare for selection review.

From what I’ve read on other threads/pages, the schools have had the results since 27/28 September and the headteachers had 48 hours to actually form a head teachers appeal. Those appeals were heard the beginning of this week (either Monday or Tuesday) so I think it’s all done and dusted now. Just a matter of another agonising wait of 7 days 🫣

In Bucks the headteacher rates the children ahead of the exam on aptitude and attitude and that's taken into account in case of appeal (though is disregarded if it's proven the headteacher's predictions are overall optimistic among the cohort).

Shame all don't get the headteacher review. Sounds like a good idea. I guess would take them ages to go through them all though

E mail would be so much better. The Royal Mail is very unreliable 😬🙈

No head teacher review here. Results are posted out on Friday directly from the grammar school. Wondering whether the post will arrive on Saturday or not. Quite miffed that the boys school email their results on Friday but we have to wait for a letter on the post!

@Tore121 in my area it's just Kent where the results are released to headteachers early because of this review process that I described above. My DD also sat the Bexley test and a Bromley school test, and for those I think the head finds out at the same time as the parents do.

@Coraline353 yes it's because there's a part of the Kent process called the headteacher review which happens before the results are released to parents. If any child is borderline, headteachers can essentially appeal on their behalf they believe the child's work evidences that they should be granted a passing score. It all happens behind closed doors - parents have no idea if their child is going through the review or notll! The results go to all headteachers of students who take the test, not just those in Kent. We're in Greenwich.

My DS has asked a few times when we will hear. I can tell he's getting anxious now. I imagine most of them are.

I didn't know the school heads knew the results. Is that the same in all primary schools?

Tbh I imagine a lot of the kids made silly mistakes with the strict time restraints they wouldn't have time to check answers :( they are all in the same boat so hopefully will all even out 🤞

I think that's what I realised @Paddingtonthebear it was on his mind but he wasn't mentioning it.

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcon didn't realise Kent heads had results already! That's worse somehow, knowing someone else knows but you don't

We haven’t discussed it much at home and I thought she was ok, but she had been anxious a few times at school lately. Overreacting, getting tearful. I wonder if the test result is looming over her 👎