11plus bollocks

[FluffyMummy123]

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It is the non-verbal reasoning that I can't cope with. And the answers give NO explanation as to why the correct one is correct IYSWIM. I can do 90% of them, but the other 10% are so obscure - (or maybe I am just not clever enough).

Scores are pretty meaningless TBH - they just draw a line across the top scoring 100 candidates (or however many places there are) and the rest go on the waiting list.

Scores only come into it if the school in question has a 2 stage process where you have to get a minimum score in the reasoning papers before being allowed to sit the maths and english.

Plus all those squiggles and lines and dots make me go cross eyed and have a migraine.

I'm sure NVR favours candidates from the planet Xarg where everyday subsistence depends on being able to negotiate one's way round black and white squiggles and draw the next one in the series.

paying for a tutor cod???

Shurly shom mishtake there???

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dd2 likes sudoku

and does a maths tutor thing online (she ASKS to do it)

atlhgouh she is having a 'reluctatnt to learn' spurt atm

dd1 likes the IDEA of sudoku but doesn not want to do them and refuses to do maths tutor online

they only do non verbal reasoning up here.
In ds1s intake year 75% got you through.
now it is reckoned to be 84%

Is there a link to the maths tutor online please?

I only have 8 years to prepare for this - ha ha!

Q: "I have been blown away with the support and warm wishes we have received from so many Mum's and Dad's on this forum. Try and take some comfort from that in the coming days. It has helped me so much I can not even begin to tell you."

Presumably a tragic death within a family? News of a devastating and life threatening illness?

Nope. Kid didn't get into grammar school.

Sorry, had to post this- lifted directly from the 'Appeals' forum of that 11+ site. GET OVER YOURSELF, I shouted at it!

Oh yes - they are all mad over there, aren't they? Endless posts about the finer points of different books and scores but the Appeals bit is the worst.
"Little Johnny only scored 95 on his Maths paper and the pass mark is 140 - should I appeal?". No you bloody shouldn't!

Daughter 2 took 11+. Failed to get into our local (and only) grammar school, that takes top 25%.

Took entrance exam to local very highly ranked academic private school, including non-verbal reasoning test. Scored the highest possible mark on NV reasoning (99%) placing her in top 1% of population. Had not been feeding her extra fish oil.

I now view 11+ with bilious disinterest, and swathes of mistrust.

It doesn't matter what marks you get. If a grammer school has 30 places available it will take the 30 highest scoring pupils.

True Nametaken, my DD "failed" but got higher results at her Comp in GCSE's than anyone in the local Grammar (or other) schools