Please help me Level 4 Maths = What??

[RTKangaMummy]

The entrance paper for Independant schools here is set to Level 4 MATHS

But what does that mean?

The exam is in January and so SATS are in May so what about the middle bit?

If they examine to Level 4 but what about topics not covered until spring term ie for the SATS.

Please help because I am very confused

How many children will get it?

As far as I can see it is not a grade but a thing that says how much is covered.

Please explain?

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Great minds, JanH!!

First one up on google

Thanks guys I thought those were verbal resoning

so is verbal understanding a story and picking out stuff

I am being so dim this morning

of course verbal = words

non verbal = no words

Verbal reasoning test

Thanks will get brain in gear soon

The athey books are brilliant. DS1 went through them before sitting for the local grammar school. We also went through the maths (BOND) because maths is one of those subjects where you need to know the principles, it's not as simple as you can or you can't if you haven't learnt the basics. If you find that you can't get the practise books in Smiths then try the bookshop.

We will search for them tomorrow hopefully

Thanks MunchedTooManyMarsLady

these are the books I used with DS1 (now using with DD1)

BOND assessment papers English and Maths. I started with the 2nd papers
Schofield & Sims Mental arithmetic
Athey verbal reasoning
Athey non verbal reasoning
the standard version for both.

Lots of reading and some comprehension.

I want mine to do the best they can and don't want them to feel phased at exam time. It only takes about 15mins each evening and there's nothing heavy about it. DS1 got into the boys grammar school and is flourishing. It really suits him. I don't think that a heavily academic school will suit DD1, but I'm not closing off that option just yet.

(There I have justified myself lol) hth

MunchedTooManyMarsLady

Thanks

my son is year 5 at mo, and loves maths. His latest test from school set him at level 5, and he works with year 6 children. I bought him the 11+ practice papers to try (letts) in maths and although he was ok on time, he did quite poorly on it- about 50 % which I was really taken aback at. He admits there was stuff in there he had not covered, and even I found a lot of questions hard. I suppose I really need to find which papers to get, and what subjects to concentrate on. I havent tried any VR yet, this is the first paper.

Tigi now I am confused

He is in the advanced group and so goes into Class 6 for Maths

he does the 11+ paper which these children would have done several weeks/months ago

And he doesn't know the stuff.

How are the classs 6 children supposed to have done the exam then

Boy I thought I had got this sorted!!!

And he is level 5.

RTKangamummy, I thought I had perhaps made a mistake buying Letts papers, so I really need to speak to his teacher to find out what board I should buy.I am not even sure now they sit Maths, and if it is just VR and comprehension papers. The children my son sits with all passed their 11+ this week.

hi RTKangaMummy,
if you would like to see what level 4 and 5 are and what will be covered you could try looking at this
which is the governments standards site which shows all the literacy and numeracy and all the other subjects to!

RTKangaMummy, DS1 brought home the books his school have given all Y6 to help with KS2 SATS. They are Letts KS2. They apparently have answer books to go with them, but these aren't necessary.

I suspect you could buy them in WHSmiths.