Private school: Y4 test scores and potential

[Snojoke]

I have a slightly lazy DD who is young in her year. She has always shown potential but is a ‘wriggler’ at home and won’t ever read for pleasure and will try and race through homework so she can get into an iPad. In class, she is apparently different and shows enthusiasm for learning.

We have just received her end of year assessment scores - they use GL Assessments at her school. It’s a (very) mildly selective independent one in London and she has not been there long so this is all new to us. We never had this data from her state primary.

Her report was good but not perfect. Her test scores however for maths and English seem to be really high. This is not a brag. She is no genius as her reasoning score was 122 so not in line with someone who can wing it.

Her English was 134/141 and maths - usually her weaker subject - was 136/141.

Does anyone know anything about these assessments? Can schools or children slightly rig these?

School won’t tell me where she is in her year roughly - not even quartiles - so I have no way of knowing whether or his was an easy test and they all did well or whether she is particularly able.

If it is the latter, should we be more ambitious about secondary schools eg grammars or more selective independents or could this be an outlier test? Will a selective school accept someone with a low-ish reasoning score like this if they can do well in the other subject exams? She is not tutored.

it doesn't really matter where she came in her year group though?

those look like standardised scores - if you search on the eleven plus website you'll find the usual score needed to get into the grammar school you are interested in.

FWIW 122 as a score is usually above the entry threshold but diff schools will have different elements to their admissions process.

talk to her school if you're not clear - but those look like great scores.

In my experience they are really high scores! My sons school want entrance exams to be 108 or higher. We are not in London but anything above 110 gets exceeding at my sons school.

I had asked where she came or just which quartile so that I could gage whether it had been some rogue soft test this year @TJsAunt . Other DC’s school ONLY a gives out quartiles against current year group rather than the age standardised results or even overall test percentages which is even more frustrating!

Thanks @Newuser75. I thought they looked high - especially for her as she’s a bit inconsistent! Just need to work out whether this means she can ever get a small scholarship at current school or if she could even try for grammars out of zone.