Appeal Help - The Meeting

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We have an forthcoming appeal meeting and want to give ourselves the best chance of success so would appreciate any advice please. Our daughter should have passed her 11+ with her total score but didn't reach the score required in two areas (she needed 107 but attained 105 & 99).
We really feel that she is best suited to a grammar education and feel that this is our one chance to fight her corner for that but would appreciate how best to strengthen our case as such please in the actual hearing.

Are there extenuating reasons she didn't get the 107 scores? (99 seems a long way off to my inexperienced eyes. Which paper was that?).

Does her primary school back you in her being of grammar school standard?

With an apparently skewed profile would she not be better off in a comp so she can be top sets for some things but set 2 or whatever for others?

Is this a fully 11+ area such as Bucks or Kent, or a more mixed one?

99 to 107 is quite a leap, were there extenuating circumstances?

i know this isnt what you’re asking but if there were no extenuating circumstances for this (and I do understand your desire for grammar) would she actually be better being a top performer in a non grammar than at the bottom in a grammar?

I say this as we deliberately didn’t put my daughter through the 11+ for this reason. Her self esteem would have plummeted.

its just something to consider as you go through this process as your daughter does seem quite a way of the expected marks and I would expect there are other children out there much closer to the expected grade that didn’t get in either.

What are the alternatives in your area. I agree that one score is quite a way off the benchmark and it might be better to focus on somewhere she can go and be successful, other than having anxiety and uncertainty.

This sounds like Kent?

If so, was she put forward for a Head Teachers' Review, assuming that her primary school expected her to do well enough in all areas of the test to achieve a pass?