Tiffin Girls' School test information released

[11PlusAdvisor]

Just to let anyone know that Tiffin Girls' School has announced its testing arrangements for 2013 entry. It will now be a 2 stage process:

Stage 1 - same as usual, verbal and non-verbal reasoning on Thursday 27th September 2012 (same test as for the boys' school)

Stage 2 - the top 400 scorers will be invited back to sit stage 2 on 8th December 2012 which will consist of 3 papers in maths, reading and writing.

The boys school is sticking to the usual stage 1 process, so just verbal and non-verbal reasoning for them.

I hope this is an improvement but given that 1400 applied last year there will still be a lot of intensive VR/NVR tutoring to get into the last 400. I imagine it will open up new opportunities for tutoring in English and maths. I wish a test could be devised which was impossible to tutor for but I guess it must be impossible.

I cannot say how gutted I am that this has come a year too late for my DD as I think it would have massively favoured the all-round bright child, as opposed to the speedy, ultra-tutored box-ticker who may not actually be able to string a sentence together or think conceptually. GRrrrrr. At least I've got that off my chest! Good luck to the next batch of hopefuls, i think it will be much fairer now and better for the school intake/culture too.

oooh, my rage has abated somewhat. DD got in! But still approve the changes to the tests for next year.

I just heard that there will be an additional 30 places at Tiffin Girls this year 2012 ... Is this true??

So is your DD, heatseekingmiss, "speedy, ultra-tutored box-ticker who may not actually be able to string a sentence together or think conceptually".. or "the all-round bright child"? As you believe the entrance examinations are geared to the former?

You can't have it both ways.