Can DD still do 11 plus in September or are we mad ?

[Midlifemission]

Not sure exactly where to post this but need to canvas collective MN wisdom.

Obviously school has been somewhat disjointed due to COVID and we find ourselves having to make decisions about secondary school.

We know that DD is bright and does well without making too much effort.
We have been told by her teacher she is working at greater depth for English and her recent test base SATs assessments done in class gave her good scores - her teacher described this as her already achieving what would be the benchmark at the end of year 6.
Maths she is less confident and would need to work on this. Her teacher said she achieves average scores but tends not to answer the questions she isn't confident with.

How on earth would we assess whether we should be encouraging her to try the 11+ ?

School have never mentioned it really apart from at the end of year 4 and we have missed so much time in school we haven't really given it the focus we might have if life had been different.

How does the 11+ get scored - I don't know how exceptional a Child needs to be. ( I passed it a hundred years ago but times have changed !)

Anyone got any thoughts I have no idea whether any child passes without being tutored throughout year 5 which seems to be the norm!

I don't mind if the answer is 'forget it she doesn't sound that academic it won't end well 'but equally I feel we are doing her a disservice not to think about it .

Her younger sibling is quite likely to do well as he progresses and I worry she will ask why she didn't get the same chances.

Thanks for any opinions or voices of experience!

@steppemum @kowari I am just coming back to update this thread to say after all your help we gave it a go and DD did really well - we have a pick of all three of the Gloucester grammars that take girls !

We took loads of the advice on here and were incredibly lucky that a friend let us use her amazing tutor for six sessions over the school summer holidays.

We weren't confident at all but it was clearly the right thing for her to give it a try.

Thanks again all who contributed!

Oh that's lovely! Well done your dd.

Thanks for updating us.

Well done!

Ah thanks I am glad I updated now - honestly this thread was so useful at the time and helped us make the decision.
We were all so excited on results day !
Now trying to pick a school with limited access due to Covid.
Not complaining one iota though it's a nice problem to have .

to be honest, they are all nice. I woudl go for the one which is easiest to get to. Think about after school clubs/coming home late, and how easy it will be to socialise aged 15!