i went to a grammar school adn do you knwo what i WOUDL NOT pass this year

[FluffyMummy123]

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[Dropdeadfred]

uuugggh I hate to think how dim i am now, I too went to Grammar....seems a long time ago now....

[Boyswillbeboys]

I think you might fail on spelling too!

[Dropdeadfred]

{dons plopper hat and sits in corner}

[charmander]

me too. my son has just done his 11plus, which i passed years ago, but looking at it i would not be of a high enough standard now.

[Flier]

i don't think i'd pass any exams i did at school, or college for that matter

[FinallyGotDyson]

LOL! The kind of maths you learn at school, and the kind of maths you need for everyday life are 2 entirely different things.

There.

Does that assuage your feelings of inadequacy?

[notnowbernard]

Am certain I wouldn't (didn't go to grammar school though)

Give a sample question!

[compo]

our primary school is going through it at the moment
I don't realise that even if you do really really well in all of it but shit in maths you don't pass

[FluffyMummy123]

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[seeker]

I regularly got about 35% on my dd's non-verbal reasoning and about 50% on the maths!

[FluffyMummy123]

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[notnowbernard]

Are you allowed to use a calculator?

[psychomum5]

@ 'fail on spellings'

I would not be able to sit any of my GCSE's that I got very good grades in, if I had to resit them now. Especially my maths one.

I have no idea sometimes how to help my elder girls with their homework, my brian is that fried from non-usage.

I would however pass my computor studies and typing exams now......much faster than I used to be, and I can use more than one finger too now

[FluffyMummy123]

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[compo]

that's what I heard in the school yard last week
but amybe it's different for different counties?

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[notnowbernard]

I remember those VERY complicated calculators at secondary school with little symbols on them

'Cos'

'Tan'

Have no idea what they meant then and certainly wouldn't have a clue now

But know FOR SURE I couldn't work out 36 into 1000 without one

[WideWebWitch]

I would, I have been marking ds's, actually, come to think of it I can do the VR easily but I can't do the maths and there's loads of maths now. Our pass rate is 122 which is 61 questions right out of 80 = 77%

[WideWebWitch]

So I would fail now becauise of maths
and I passed and went to a grammar too

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[eandh]

When I went to grammar no exams just recommendations form your teachers/headmasters with evidence of your work (although I was the last year to go at 13+ so had 2 years of 'normal' secondary then went to grammar at 13)