Can anyone help, I just can't get my head around it, it's in the back of my mind constantly and I need to put it to bed until about mid-February.
Although DD is not my eldest, this is the first time I've been through the Yr7 admission process. To complicate matters we are applying in a different county, which has the grammar school system. DD did not sit the 11+ but is achieving very well and would certainly have been considered 11+ material. Her first choice school has an assessment day on Saturday. The top 20% are guaranteed intake (although I have not told DD this as she's an anxious sort). Presumably, many of the 11+ students will also be sitting this exam but will go on to be offered places at grammars, thus freeing up more of the 20% at our preferred school.
But on offer day, will they be offered a place at our preferred school anyway, meaning that DD is likely not to be offered a place.
How the heck does this work? Do the grammars write out early to those with a place so that they get taken out of the equation or what?
I know this is long and more than a tad neurotic. I know I need to just sit back and let the process run through. I accept I am a control freak who has come up against something I just cannot control. But any insights gratefully received.