11+ and SATS this year

[PamsterWheel]

If your son/daughter took the 11+ for Sept intake of this year how did they do in their SATS?

Did you find that your child scored over 110 in all categories if they passed their 11+ ?

I don't live in a grammar school area and my DD 'passed' her SATS but not by much. No ulterior motive, not anti grammar (went to.one myself) just curious as to whether the tests were comparable.

Because they had a huge gap from year 2 to year 3.
Year 2
Learn this. Well done. You've achieved well.
Year 3
We're changing what you have to learn. Why don't you know this? You've failed it.

And in that time just one bad teacher or one bad term is enough for their catch up to be enormous. For the next teacher I mean. And you don't get the good teacher till year 6 when by then, it all seems a bit late.

I thought it was last year's y6 who were supposed to have got the raw deal and supposedly everything ironed out for this Y6 who had an 'extra' year of prep for the new SATS or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Passed the bucks 11+.
SATs 118, 117, 108

The 108, she says she didn't answer the last 5 questions as she ran out of time. So not an issue of ability but of speed, which has been a problem for her in all aspects of her life since she was tiny.

In the school I work in, those that passed 11+ all got greater depth in most, if not all areas on their SATs. However, some children who didn't pass the 11+ also got greater depth on their SATs (they were near misses though and the grammars round here are super selective ones so these children would have passed the 11 + if it had been in a different area)

I was curious about this too op. We don't have grammar schools where I live and I don't know a lot about them. I do know a couple of parents who have y4/y5 DC and are tutoring/pushing/parenting with a very strong focus on trying for scholarships for private secondaries. They are obsessed with practising SATs already and I do wonder why.

Conversely, I have a v clever DD who I have never pushed and never would, who got 120x3 with ease and is fairly remarkable if I'm honest. I wonder if we lived in a different area, if she'd have a different experience of education.

DS was way off pass mark for super selective grammar school. I was quite surprised.

SATS results were;
Reading 113
SPAG 116
Maths 115
Though his teacher pushed for ES on his writing as he is “very laid back” (lazy) and hates story writing.

SATS 107-109.

Got into super selective by a comfortable margin with minimal home prep (did a few practice tests independantly).

DS passed his 11+ for super selective with 17 marks over the requirement to gain a place. Sats scores were 120 120 118.

We did 3 months prep with Bond books for the 11+ 20 minutes 3 x week. No prep for Sats. I am not academic nor did I have a good education or remotely supportive parents. This I think is the key. I'm very good at stoking the fire (motivating DS) to do 'his' best effort but I'm rubbish at helping.

We do verbal reasoning and non verbal reasoning at 11+

She got 257 out of 280

Passed all SATS but didn't get over 110. She made more effort with the 11+...simple as that. I did no prep other than set homework at home.