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Hope you get good news on Friday. Is that school your top choice?

Also, can you remind me of the book title which has tests for your child. To see how they score at any age.

How old is your ds/dd?

I'm not sure what book you mean?
We used Bond tests published by Nelson Thornes. Available for different age ranges.

The Ten-minute tests are great, as you can easily do one a day as part of every-day routine.

It looks on Amazon like they are bringing out these for the next level down (age 9-10) in summer 2008: I might get them for ds2.

Parents' Stress-free guide to the 11+ is helpful, and includes an assessment to determine where your child is on the process, which is designed to be used about 12 months before the exam.

That's the one. The Stress Free Guide. My eldest is eight and a half, in year 04.

DS2 is the same age. I'm going to wait and see results for ds1's assessment before I decide what to do with ds2.

I spent quite some time teaching ds1 formal grammar terms - pronoun, preposition, adverbs, antonyms, etc. And all he had to do for the English test was proofread a passage (spelling and grammar) then write a story.

Are you looking at independent schools?

Yup. No selective state schools here - more's the pity.

One out of the 8 state schools is actually very good, but ds1 isn't keen to go there (it's a bus journey and a huge school - 1200 11-16s), but he probably won't get a place there anyway.