Tiffin Boys Results

[Bijlee]

Just received the results no qualifying score mentioned.
Need help to decipher the results.

[goodDayToday]

duckypie - see school website for details (and save your money!).

[AmazingDisgrace]

their not there

[AmazingDisgrace]

Duckypie, it looks like Tiffin will change there entrance tests to English and Maths only. No VR or NVR

[duckypie]

yes. tiffin boys will sit vr, nvr, maths and english. hes being tutored for maths and english only. I need to find a good tutor for vr/nvr. I found a tuition company called examberry but will cost me £75 pw for 4hrs. has anyone used them in the past... has anyone heard of them??? if so are they good.

[htm123]

duckypie What age is your DS?
Tiffin Boys will not test anymore on Verbal & NV Reasoning from 2015, so you are very lucky!
Have you thought about finding in the beginning a good (Maths and English) primary school teacher local to you (ideally teaching children of your DS's age group)? IN MY AREA Usually good tutors are pre-booked way in advance and they charge more than an ordinary primary school teacher so most parents I know hire tutors only towards the end of Spring or beginning of Summer term of Year 5. By then the tutors expect the pupils to work at an above average NC level so they can focus more on improving child's test technique- speed & accuracy. Good luck.

[duckypie]

hi all. does anyone know of a good tutor who maybe able to get my child into tiffins, kgs or hampton boys...

[Deetan]

Please could you kindly let me know who are the teachers out there teaching in Kingston and surrey area? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I understand Barbara has retired so is the any other good teachers out there. Also what are the study materials/books I can use for my daughters 11+ exam. Please, please help me here. I’m new to this site so no one is answering my questions.

Kind regards, Sami

[hopefullytwicelucky]

Silly question: anybody heard of something like this:
Child A gets an offer from Grammar School A that is miles away from his home and he would prefer Grammar School B (next to his home).
Child B gets an offer from Grammar School B that is miles away from his home and he would prefer Grammar School A(next to his home).
Now.....anybody knows if there is a chance of doing the obvious? I.e. the 2 children swapping places?
Apologies in advance if that's out of context.
Thank you.

[t33jay]

Hi All,

We have an offer for Wilson's but we were aiming for Tiffin Boys. So I compared the two schools and it turned out that Wilson's is marginally better than Tiffin.

My question is, if I put Tiffin as our first choice but our score is lower than the qualifying score, would the council offer us a place in Wilson's even though we put it as our second choice? Or would I be taking the risk of losing Wilson's allocation altogether by not putting them as first choice?

My son only got 201 standardised score in Tiffin.

Looking forwards for your advice, thanks.

[hopefullytwicelucky]

We are lucky enough to have already a place offered at KGS, but obviously prefer not to pay for his education. Those financial resources can go towards family holidays...
Whatever happens, I cannot fault my son: he worked sooooooo hard! All he needs now is a bit of luck!
I wish you all good luck! And I mean it!

[Bijlee]

What a system!

[cwazycaz]

anyone knows what the average was in previous years? the average was 200 this year. is it higher or lower than previous years?

[hopefullytwicelucky]

Hi
My son got 232. Anybody have a hint on what would be the cut off point this year? My other boy got in some years back with 228 (last on the list...).
Can I hope to be twice lucky?
Any other ways to find out about the cut off mark? Would hate to wait for 5 months...
Anybody in similar position?
Thanks

[Bijlee]

Thanks Amazing. Will consider your advise.

[Hamptonschool]

Hi people!
My son got 223 and we are considering putting Tiffin on the CAF.
Please advise.

[AmazingDisgrace]

Bijlee, Be careful that you aren't in effect wasting one of your choices by naming Tiffin. A score of 216 is very unlikely to get a place from the waiting list. Last year the cut off was 231 on allocations day and the waiting list only moved down as far as 229. In recent years I don't think the waiting list has moved further than 223 from a 225 initial cut off. With over 2000 boys sitting for the test this year the initial cut off could be even higher than 231 and sadly the waiting list is not realistically going to go down to 216.

You should congratulate your son on his score though, he did better than over half who sat for the test with 200 being the average score

[Bijlee]

Hi Tiggy, Cwazycaz,
Thanks for the words of encouragement, 216 is good, perhaps not good enough for a place. I will put Tiffin on the CAF but with realistic option in mind for him to go on the waiting list afterwards.
I completely agree with the fact that there are many boys who either come from preps and/or heavily tutored. Competition is too tough!

[cwazycaz]

Bilgee, 216 is a very good score! there is a lot of competition and many boys are heavily tutored and/or come from preps. A far cry from the school ethos which once opened its doors for ‘some honest poor man’s son’.
good luck for Wallington!!

[shaq]

Hi Tiggy,

Thanks for the advice! No, I'm not planning on putting Tiffin on the CAF now - it would require a miracle of epic proportions for him to get in with that score! I thought it was worth him sitting the test because it is our closest Grammar (20mins by bus). We focused on the Sutton grammars, as it seemed to be safer in terms of getting in, and it seems to have paid off so far, as he passed the Wilson's test, and we are now waiting for WCGS and the SGS test.

The dilemma that I have is, is it worth putting down Greenshaw? In the sense that is it worth the travel time (around 50 mins)? The travel time for the others (Wilsons, WCGS, Sutton) is around that too, but I can see that it's worthwhile in that case, but for Greenshaw? Will that be much better than my more local options (Coombe boys, Richard Challoner, Southborough).

Would love to hear from others too who have experience of Greenshaw!