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CSSE 11+ What percentage result = good enough score?!

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BooksAndAnimals · 09/07/2024 12:54

Hello Mumsnetters. My daughter will be taking the CSSE 11+ exam in September and we haven’t got a tutor. She has been doing practice papers for the CSSE exam. Can anyone give me an indication of what sort of percentage of the papers she should be getting correct to get a 340/350 score or above in her exam? We are aiming for WHSG but are probably going to be out of catchment. And if we were able to move in time and only needed a score 303 could anyone give me a rough idea of what percentage of the papers she would need to be getting correct in that case? THANK YOU in advance!!

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MarchingFrogs · 09/07/2024 14:16

Have a look here, where some people posted their DC's raw scores along with their month of birth and standardised score. It used to be quite a 'thing' to post the raw scores as well as standardised scores on the forum, but for last year, at least, almost no-one detailed anything other than the standardised score.

https://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/11plus/viewtopic.php?t=63799&start=10

(You can scroll back through the 'Essex' section in the Board Index for similar threads from earlier years).

CurlewKate · 09/07/2024 14:46

It depends on the LEA or the school. I see someone's suggested the 11+Forum. There's lots of useful information on there- but also a lot of scary obsessed parents. Try not to get drawn in.

MarchingFrogs · 09/07/2024 20:05

For the schools in the CSSE (Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex), the one exam provides a single standardised score for each individual candidate, which is then used by the CSSE member school(s) applied to as part of its ranking of those who name the school on their CAF. So taking DS2's score of 378.962 (which was actually from the slightly different version of the exam for 2014 entry, but it's the same principle) and the fact that we are in the priority area for two of the boys' grammar schools and for two of the three partially Selective member schools, he was eligible to apply to all of those as he met the threshold of 303 and in all except a couple of years historically, meeting the threshold, if IC, was enough, due to the relatively small size of the IC year 6 population vs 'the rest'.

For the next nearest boys' grammar, 20 miles away in Chelmsford, we are OOC, but that score would have got him a place there, had we been cruel enough to make him do the journey.

20+ miles further away again, the other CSSE boys' grammar, Colchester Royal Grammar School, at the time admitted solely on score, but DS2 would have been sure of a place. (There are people who make their DC do a 90-mile daily round trip for school, but we are not of their number. He followed his sibling two miles up the road to SHSB).

Underlying that individual standardised score is that candidate's raw score out of 60 in each of the two papers that make up the exam. The mean score for each, the standard deviation and the age adjustment (applied linearly by 'days younger than 1st September birthday will vary from cohort to cohort, obviously, gut the posts on the forum will at least give a view of what raw scores, for DC of what age, produced a particular standardised score in that year of entry.

BooksAndAnimals · 10/07/2024 00:28

Thank you both so much. Now I understand how she is doing and by approximately how much she needs to up her game. You’ve been really helpful!

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