10+ exams Trinity and Whitgift 2023 entry

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Hello everybody, starting a thread for parents with children who have applied for 10+ this year.

My son will sit the Whitgift exam tomorrow. I am glad the thread is started. The previous years ones were very informative.

Hi London2007! Yes, I'm surprised there isn't one like this already. How's your DS feeling?

My one sat the Trinity one last Sat and has been too exhausted to study this week. Oops. What will be, will be.

My son is very relaxed. He is from a small state primary and this will be a practice run for the 11+ grammars for him.
How did your son find the Trinity exam?

My son was very nervous last week. It was his first exam. And like your DS, he is from a state school. It was a last minute decision to apply so we didn't do a crazy amount of prep. He said "It went OK." Who knows what that means lol. We haven't pushed him for more info. Hopefully he has more of an idea of what to expect.

How did your DS find the papers?

Also, if anybody is aware- will some children find out if they are likely to move to the next round this yr? The trinity letter said "9 January at the latest"- from past experience, is anybody aware if they tell people the outcome this side of the Christmas holidays?

Bless him. Sitting an exam the very first time is daunting. They are very young, it’s all new and to be honest I was surprised to find out how much is expected from such young children.
English isn’t my first language and I wasn’t educated here so it’s a new experience for me too. We take this exam as a new experience, something we can learn from and hopefully something he will find a challenge and will enjoy.
To answer your question, my son enjoyed the practise paper, he is not tutored but does preparation for the state grammars 11+. He is good at Maths and reasonably good at English, he found the maths paper easy but he wasn’t familiar with the English questions.
The email we received from the admissions office said they will start contacting for interviews in early January so I assume we will not here before.

Thanks London2007. Hopefully good results for our boys come January!

Hope all the boys are having a good experience at Whitgift's exams this morning! They all seemed so little piling into the school this morning. 🚶🏃🚶🚶🚶

Z said he enjoyed and the maths questions were harder than the example paper was.
He looks exhausted and probably he is!
He is very impressed that he was offered a Capri sun to drink!

I love it when this thread pops up each year (although mine were 11+ entry). My Trinity boys have both graduated from Uni now. It seems so long ago and yet at the same time it's gone so quickly!

I recognise your username SoupDragon!

Oh wow soupdragon. That's super! This 10+/11+ stress must seem like a distant memory for you. Hopefully you're now in relaxed mode. Or as my mum tells me, motherly stress never ends, it just changes 😂

My DS also found the maths hard. In fact, we are a bit horrified hearing what he did for some questions. But it's over and he can relax over Christmas!

My DS didn’t go into details just stated he couldn’t do 3 of the maths questions and I think it took him by surprise.
It’s over, he put some efforts in and we shall see.

Yes, all the boys did so well. So young and sitting exams. They should all be proud. Grateful we have Christmas to chill! Enjoy your Christmas London2007! Here's for a fab 2023!

They definitely can be very proud of themselves.
Have a wonderful Christmas too user1473290348!

It's just one stress after another 😂

DS sat also thought Maths was hard!

I thought in past years people started to be called to arrange interviews pretty soon after the exam but we haven’t heard anything yet, a week after the Trinity exam.

But as others have said we’re just relieved to be finished and able to get into holiday mode now!

My DS only did Whitgift. I am not expecting to hear back anything until at least the very end of December. Probably the ones who will get early interviews will be contacted before January.
I guess we will just have to wait patiently. ( patience is not my strength)

How did DS find the critical thinking and English papers?

LoL. Ditto.

My earlier message somehow deleted my second line. Regarding the critical thinking and English paper, DS said he wasn't sure about the comprehension and the critical thinking paper was not what he expected. He started rambling on about one question and tbh, I'm confused what he was trying to say LoL.

user1473290348, DS said comprehension was much easier than he thought it will be ( he is a voracious reader but didn’t come across with a lot of poetry before ) and he got stuck on the last critical thinking question, he thinks it was wrongly worded…. He did say the questions were unusual but he didn’t find them hard except for the last one. Not finding it hard doesn’t necessarily mean he got it right though.
I am more cautious about his writing, although he is strong in English his imagination is still immature, his stories are very often make more sense in his little head than in ours. He is a summer born boy.

My son will sit the Whitgift 11+ in January. May I know what's in the critical thinking paper? Is it VR or NVR or something else?

Hi AC7001, it’s neither. It’s more like problem solving verbal questions. For example x is 4 years younger than b and b is 5 older than z. Z is 12 years old, how old is x etc.
or figure out a direction ( N,W,E,S) from a description.
At 10+ they had 20 questions for 30 minutes.
I don’t think they are particularly difficult but they have very little time to figure them out so I think it is testing their natural ability and concentration skills as this was after the 2 hours English and Maths.