Appeal update / banding and aptitude test results

[OutofIdeas86]

I know i've posted a few time on this topic, to people's annoyance, but we had an update from the school yesterday (their appeal response has been sent to us).

It includes result of our DS CAT4 assessment data and his aptitude test results.

In the appeal we are arguing that due to tonsilitis (as diagnosed by a doctor a day) he wasn't fairly/ correctly banded.
His primary school has been us a CAT4 scaled score of 108, his CAT4 assessment was 98. So there is a big variation. I guess our argument here is he was incorrectly banded, and in not being offered a place was disadvantage by this.

On the drama aptitude test, he scored 24/25 - but only 4 children got a drama place, they all got 25/25. But on the other offered aptitude test - dance, sport, music, children with as low as 88% scoring were successful. I guess my argument here is he was unfortunate to not be selected with a 96% score.

I don’t think there’s much point rehashing whether DS should or shouldn’t have sat the test. I think a lot of us would have gone for the “try your best on the day” even if we fully knew the procedures, just in case it wasn’t deemed serious enough for a move to the contingency day and we missed the chance altogether.

However, there’s normally a period in which you can submit evidence for mitigating circumstances and it’s not clear if op did this at the time or waited months until the allocations were out.

Regardless of the above - DS was not guaranteed a place whichever band he was placed in because of the random selection, which OP cannot seem to understand precludes a panel from doing anything to give her a place using the band allocation information!