JAGS 7+ 2017

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My daughter will sit the 7+ for JAGS in a few years. She is currently in our local state school (reception) and appears to be progressing well. I contacted JAGS to see what level she would need to be working at in order to pass the assessment. I was told around a 3c. Is this realistic though?

I wondered if any parents of girls who were made offers this year, would be happy to advise me of the levels their daughters were working at. My feeling is it would be higher than 3c as it is so competitive! Happy to be corrected however.
Thanks.

Can anyone answer this?

I'm not sure about levels but if you look at the JAPS website there are specimen 7+ papers that should give you an idea of the standard required.

Is that a 3c near the beginning of Y2?

Not many DC would achieve that.

Yep Killasandra- that is for the January assessment in year 2! I wonder if those that pass the assessment are working ahead of even this though, as my son sat the Alleyns assessment and wasn't offered a place. At the assessment he was working at a 3c in maths and reading and on track to be a 3c in writing by end of year 2.

JAGS is higher up the league tables than Alleyns so I am wondering if the child needs to be ahead of this even? Can anyone enlighten me?

writing is by far the hardest to get to a 3c in by Jan Y2

Our school have never told us levels but DS just did 7+ for the dulwich schools and got offers so if I describe what he can do may be someone else will be able to tell you what levels that equates to. I assume all of the schools there expect a broadly similar standard.

In terms of writing, his spelling and vocab are good (he is always reading) and he tends to write sentences with a couple of linked clauses. He can use basic grammar: capitals, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists, brackets and quotation marks... His handwriting is however absolutely dreadful.

As for maths, he: knows 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables, can add and subtract three digit numbers, multiply and divide double digit numbers by single numbers, understands simple fractions (halves and quarters), identify right angles, find lines of symmetry, tell the time on analogue and digital clocks, do simple 'money' sums with remainder...

Running through a mental list of what was covered on the practice papers I did with him but hopefully that might give some idea.

What school did you get an offer from if you don't mind me asking wandymum?

We have an offer from dulwich college which we accepted but as I say not Alleyns so not sure they do all expect the same - unless my DS performed spectacularly well for DC but not Alleyns (which is possible I guess. He said he liked DC more when we looked around and this was his first choice, so maybe....)

Thanks for the tips on writing though - I have banked this knowledge!

We got offers from JAPS and Alleyns. My daughter is a strong 3b in writing and a 3a in Maths. From her description, there were some level 4 Maths questions in the papers for both schools.
Hope that helps.

As I suspected summersun- they do indeed need to be above a 3c. At least I know how much work we need to do now! Congratulations to you both.