Is anyone else waiting for 11+ results?

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

"hak why are you even on this thread? Are you waiting for 11+ results?"

Yes. My god daughter and my nephew are both waiting for their results.

Why are you on the thread LaQ? You know your DD is in

We should get 11+ results next Tues. (Only a 3 week wait - in time for Secondary School application form deadline).

Ds keeps saying "I'm pretty sure I haven't passed, but even if I have, it'll be close to the pass mark."

He wants to open the envelope himself, so for the 3rd time in this house, the letter will be burning a hole in the hall table till ds gets back from school!

"Nothing to do with my 'supreme confidence' hak just everything to do with DD2's ability."

One of those who got in without expensive, skilled and highly targeted tutoring?

One of those who got in without expensive, skilled and highly targeted tutoring?

Many of the children who 'get in' are already being taught the topics which crop up in the 11+ at expensive, skilled and highly targeted private schools.

What do you suggest the rest do, when their state primaries won't even be covering the relevant parts of the curriculum until after the date of the exam?

DS sat it on Saturday. He hasn't been to look at the school and only decided to enter the middle of September. As a result his total preparation was one timed English paper and a quick look through what to expect for verbal, non verbal and Maths.

Unsurprisingly he didn't finish verbal and non verbal and I'm pretty sure he won't pass. I realised yesterday that when the results come through saying 'not met required standard' for the pretty much the first time in his life he will have failed at something academic.

Preparing my speech very carefully for next week when the results come through and want it over and done with. Thank goodness not many from his school entered this year as our local school has gone all out to stop the drift to Grammar so he won't be in the situation where they lose all the top set children as in previous years.

Thank goodness not many from his school entered this year as our local school has gone all out to stop the drift to Grammar so he won't be in the situation where they lose all the top set children as in previous years.

I don't understand this. Which local school has done this- the primary or secondary-and how?!

Our letter is phrased more kindly than that - it says assessed suitable for high school, rather than not suitable for grammar.

LaQueenOnHerHolibobs But all the tutor can do is teach technique - and cover the msthematical components which her school doesn't touch until rnd of Yr6. not to mention teach NVR & VR and the best way to identify which of 26 types of VR question it is so they identify the best approach to enable them to answer the question in the quickest possible time.

The 11 plus wouldn't be as daunting for me if my DC needed to be in the top 25% of his cohort. Unfortunately they will need to be in the top 4% to gain a place at the local selective school (within 500 meters of where we live). Due to the rest of the local schools having catchments, it is our best chance of a local school.

Gosh I am so, so glad we do not have grammar schools here. Good luck to everyone going through this though.

LaQueenOnHerHolibobs Luckily we only have regular grammars here, just top 20%. I hear the SS are another ballgame. Good luck to your DS my local school is not strictly a SS, it has an inner and outer catchment with the maximum distance being 9 miles. However, after SEN, Cared for, 19 distances then siblings, only the 19 inner academic places and 10 music places are an option for a first born child.

I suspect I have more chance of getting my DC into the nearest SS tbh.

LaQueenOnHerHolibobs Blimey, that's narrowing the odds such a lot! It narrows it further when people from the outer catchment and beyond rent the flats next to the school :-(

It does seem a little ....tasteless..... to come on a "waiting for results thread and say "yes, I am waiting for results. My child starts at grammar school in September".But hey, ho.

Not 11+ as such as we're not in a grammar area, but DC has sat testss for the small number of places via the non-faith route at 2 schools (400 sat for 22 places...) and a superselective (900 sat for 120 places).

Odds aren't good, particularly as for the super selective DC only did 2/3 of questions for one of the papers despite me saying over and over again to move on if one question was too difficult and come back to it at the end. Apparently DC was "determined" to answer that question

Results are here in a couple of weeks I think but we're not stressing as even if the odds weren't daunting enough, maximum 66% on one of the papers for a super selective isn't going to cut it. In some ways it's better than thinking there's a chance - at least we pretty much know and have been able to properly examine the comps with out thinking "yeah but DC probably won't be coming here" in the back of our minds.

LaQueenOnHerHolibobs mum we have no real catchment here. Which means we have pupils catching the train up from Kings Cross, every day, to Lincolnshire to access the grammars. Local parents are not happy, but because they go on scores, there's not much they can do. Does the school give priority to siblings? That's where our local problem lies. There are defined catchments. People rent a property in the catchment, after a respectable period they move back out of the area. The child is then followed through the school by their siblings.

Spindarella are you SW Herts?

LaQueen sorry if I'm being dense, but Kings Cross LONDON? To Lincolnshire? EVERY DAY? Wow! I had second thoughts about a school because it'd mean DC catching two buses across city.

Mum PMed you.

There's nothing like an 11+ thread to bring out everyone's inner snippiness.

I don't know why there is such inverse snobbery about not having tuition.

If anyone said that their dc was taking a driving test after having £25-a-go driving lessons, it would be a non-event. You don't have to have driving lessons to take, or pass the test, but most people do. Same with 11+ tuition, whether this takes place at school, with a tutor, or at home with clued-up parents.

Maybe the word 'tutor' is the trigger, as it smacks of privilege and wealth in a way that 'teacher' doesn't. All that's happening is that children are being taught about the things which they are going to encounter in the exam.

That's what normally happens before you take an exam.