Is anyone else waiting for 11+ results?

[rollonthesummer]

6 days to go and starting to get anxious...!

No, but I will be in your position next year so I just wanted to say and hand holding if needed!

No but I was there last year and it's still vivid in my memory. Good luck!

Yes. Good grief I never knew how slowly the days could go. We have a 5 week wait that is over next week.

My alcohol consumption has seen a sharp increase of late.

My dd is getting her results next week.
I wasn't nervous before, but I am now.
She sat the Kent test which was supposed to be harder this year.

Apparently the Kent test pass mark will be about 320 this year (usually 360), which I guess suggests it was hard.

We were waiting last year, I feel your pain And then depending in the score, there's the even longer wait until March National Allocation Day

Ds took it, but we're not bothered about the results, realistically he had no chance of passing. Might not be so nonchalant in 2yrs time, as dd1 wants to go to a grammar.

"Yep, DD2 gets results this Saturday."

Really,LaQueen? I thought yours were both at grammar school already........

Ten days to go. I hope people get the results they would like.

Oh, yes. I forgot your supreme self confidence!

Tanaqui. The pass mark has been 360 for years ! 320 have they changed the test beyond recognition then.

Is overweening confidence more or less deleterious a trait than hypocrisy?

I'm waiting. Pass mark is 334 in Trafford, but I bucked the trend by not having DD tutored for years on end so we'll see if the schools' assertion that tutoring is not necessary to pass is borne out in reality...

Hypocrisy is worse. Can't stand hypocrites. Confidence is often just an accurate evaluation of the situation.

We are waiting but the odds are against us. We didn't do the tutoring thing either but prepared by doing familiarisation papers and making sure content was covered.

I will be elated if DS1 gets a high enough mark for the super-selective. He will pass but as we only have one bite at the cherry (different county so only 1 grammar close enough), passing is sadly not enough.

Any reasonably bright DC can pass I think.

Are you two for real?

Yes, I don't think you could be quite as confident if it was for super selective entry LaQ as many very able DC miss out.

I certainly wasn't as confident as LaQ was this time last year, even though everyone else who knew DD2 was clearly even more confident that she would succeed than LaQ appeared to be about her own DD. As it transpired, I had nothing to worry about (as with DD1) but I have far too much respect for the lords of karma to take anything for granted. I suspect LaQ sleeps better at night than I do but really, there's nothing I can do about it - I envy confident types but I can never be one. It's just not in me.

Any reasonably bright DC can pass I think.

Have you seen the eleven plus forums appeals section?!

Rabbit- I am very glad that the confidence of everyone around me did not overrule my English middle class self deprecation. Or my son would have been a very unhappy boy, and I would have looked like a dick.

Just a rumour I saw elsewhere Smokepole- but fits with what people have been saying about the maths this year.