Common entrance marking

[HarrietT43]

Hi! I thought I’d try here as no replies at all on the Education thread.
Could someone explain Common Entrance 13+ marking to me? I know there are often three papers with an additional scholarship paper. Could your DD/DS score 90% on paper 1, and would this be better than 60% on paper 2? Where does CASE fit in? TIA.

Just following up here if anyone knows how it works, someone must do! With all the Common Entrance level choices it would be really useful to know whether to push upwards to challenge, or stick to a “safe, easy” level.

Generally, schools expect children to sit the level 2 papers. Sometimes children for example with dyslexia/dyscalculia might sit level 1 with agreement from the school to which they are applying. English, maths, science and French have the levels. I don’t think other subjects do. Not history or geography.
usually schools prefer the level 2 even though it will result in a lower % but where a child can’t access the level 2 paper, a level 1 will show what they can do and usually gives them a much higher %.
as you’d expect, it really all depends on the school and the child.

Thank you so much! It is so complicated…