The Consortium have announced their new assessment today that has been developed in conjunction with Atom Learning.
Details are:
The assessment will include cognitive reasoning, English comprehension, Maths and some creative new components to assess problem-solving and analysis skills.
Any prior knowledge assessed in the entrance examination will be based on the National Curriculum for Year 5, but with opportunities for additional challenge built into the assessment.
The assessment will be taken as an online assessment.
There will be five distinct components, taken in the following order:
20 minutes for Maths
10 minutes for Non-Verbal Reasoning
30 minutes for English comprehension and Verbal Reasoning
BREAK for 30 minutes
15 minutes for Problem Solving
25 minutes for the Analysis component
Familiarisation materials will be published on the Consortium website in early Autumn Term 2022. We recommend that all candidates look at these before taking the assessment.
I am happy to hear they will be tested on the Y5 curriculum bot happy that the familiarisation materials are available from he Autumn term given the assessment takes place in December.
What are people's thoughts and how are you preparing?
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New London Consortium assessment for 2023 entry
EmotiveBubblez · 09/05/2022 18:58
Mystery2345 · 10/05/2022 18:21
My first thought is do they have shares in Atom Learning - what a scam!
uk2020 · 17/05/2022 21:32
This news makes me feel very uncomfortable with the Consortium. First, did they really need to mention the so-called partnership with Atom in such a high profile manner? Second, does it imply we should train our children given Atom itself is tutoring system? Third, was there any personal interest involved in the so-called partnership? I think we need to pressure the Consortium to change their mind.
LondonMum20222 · 18/05/2022 09:59
Aside from the fact that it's a clear money-making win for Atom, what worries me is that all the schools bleat on and on about not needing to tutor / do any prep outside school for 11+. And yet now they're linking the main online provider of 11+ prep to a whole tranche of schools for the entrance exam. The obvious consequence of which is that tons of kids will be made to sit through hours of mock tests on Atom (and parents will feel duty-bound to pay £60 for the privilege). It makes a mockery out of the secondary schools' insistence that kids shouldn't be made to do loads of extra work. Of COURSE parents are going to feel that, in order to give their child the best shot, they'll have to practice on Atom. It's really bad form.
EmotiveBubblez · 13/10/2022 21:25
Just thought I would bump this post - is anyone applying for schools in the consortium and if so which ones and how many?
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