11 plus support thread for exams 2024

Hi, have any of you used /using exampaperplus products? can I send pm to you?

Happy for all whose DS got into selective and wish the DS who dint get through a fabulous childhood.

@ElvenDreamer What can I say, you have been driving force for few by being here and that can be witnessed from the messages above. during the journey DS only said He wants to have wonderful childhood and not this. State school is the only place he can have it, but It is not safe for his own mental well being based on where we live. DH assume people come to selective schools for study and so they dont bully as much. I cant buy it.

I wish such a wonderful childhood for your DS with the backing of great family. Thank you for creating this community.

my son got 214, is this good score for Haberdashers' Adams Grammar School, Telford?

From memory it was on results day. They also have information on their website that show what the final top 20 and out of catchment score went to on National Offer Day. Similar information is on the Trafford Council website too.

In short, I think you need to be getting at least 260+ for out of catchment scores for Alti/Sale, its based on distance for Urmston/Stretford.

Ah that's good to know.

Presumably they post this before the CAF needs to be submitted?

@slaybell I know Urmston grammar put details on their website including the initial top 20 score, which will then fall depending on who applies for what schools. Presume it's the same for the others.

Good question, no idea

Trafford Parents: Quick question, how would you know if your DC is in the top 20? My DD won't be anywhere near this but just curious. I know you get a separate score for each school, do they also tell you if you are in the top 20? How would you know you are guaranteed one of those places if they don't?

@NoWayRose KEGS or CRGS? Thanks

Thank you PencilVania , much appreciated. Congratulations to you and your DS too ! As you say they all and we all deserve a cheer for getting this far , regardless of the results and offers or none. So we'll done to All !

@MySparklyGoldHelper congratulations to you, your DS and everyone regardless of the outcome, as we all know how much effort these processes are.
I drafted something today and think it may be of help if your DS is aiming for KEGs IC/OOC. Will send via PM.

What school are you aiming for?

Hello All, thank you for starting this thread. Reading your messages have been comforting. My DS took the CSSE exam and got his results yesterday. He has passed them and got ok results. How do we draw from last year's results when the CSSE email says that last year's results may not have tye same bearing for this year and the cut off for each school for this year will not be available until after March when it's too late. Any insight would be helpful here. Thanks

@LaBee Good luck to your daughter! Our children have a huge competition here. Reading desperately needs more grammar schools

Great news for all the passers!! Hope the ones that didn't quite get what they are hoping for a ok.... it's such a brutal system.
Quite a few of dd(14)s didn't pass and they are all doing really well and are all still good friends.

Feeling for all of us who are still waiting. Hopefully not too much longer 🤞

We had good news yesterday, good rank which virtually guarantees a place in our choice of grammar. Such a relief! Fingers crossed for all the children (and parents/carers) who have to wait a bit longer to find out the outcome.

Congratulations! We are waiting on Kendrick for my DD. Hope it is this week. The website says before 31 Oct.

Great news for you! We still will have to wait until March.... I am so proud of my son

Well done to everyone for getting through the exams. For those that didn't get good news, I hope your DCs are feeling alright about it.
We found out yesterday that DS passed! He got a great score, although as long as it's a pass it doesn't really matter for our area as the pass mark is fixed now. We are less than a mile walk away, so very lucky that we don't have another anxious wait.

Just received the results for Reading School- my son got an eligible score! I am over the moon, especially considering that I taught him myself using the programme by Learning Street. SO proud of him!

Friday and Monday have been results day, DS never knew about it. not definitely superselctive scores, but equivalant at one place and another good enough for our choice. CSSE marks and score has no relavance though with birth dates standardisation, funnily same autumn child, same total got 3 points higher bless him.

Child should continue preparing for local Indie, which is superselective. We are so relieved as DS is only child with no sibling support and non-selective state system is not for him.

I insisted that I tell him his result and convinced him that it was really good score (definitely strong pass for ooc other than kegs in csse, and little below of top 180 in bex (his score was top 180 in previous years) , and we dropped kent as it would be too hard on him)

He only did 11+ for us parents and not his desire, such a happy child wherever he is. He was upset on exam day only for not able to touch last page of maths, but not for marks. I am proud that he is dealing 3 different kind of tests with out complaining.

Congratulations @OutOfNameIdeas fantastic news. We are aiming for Lincolnshire but Grantham who released them on Friday. Now just the wait until March for it to be official as ours is super selective.

We’ve had good news for DD this morning 🙂 we’re in Lincolnshire, is anyone else getting results today? Good luck to everyone still waiting