My family are currently suffering this 11+ **** and wondering whether we have done the right thing in pushing my son down this route. My son is taking various mock exams, but getting back very variable results from one test to the next. One day he is the next Einstein. The next month I am looking up road sweeper jobs for him in the future.
The FOIA information is very interesting, but I do not quite understand it. As I understand it, there is no "eligible score" for Colyton. They simply take the top [110] results and offer those kids the places. If these eligible scores noted in the FOIA response are basically "marks out of 160 needed to get an offer", is this saying that the kids offered a place in those particular years were accepted down to 102 / 104 out of 160? Which seems quite low - we've been told to aim for the 70 plus percentile. Or that there was considered to be an "eligible" threshold, but still only the top 110 students were accepted, which could have been much higher marks than 102 out of 160.
I am trying to work out what chance my son has got based on the three mocks he has so far sat.
And does anyone have any info / gossip on how the creative writing test will factor in, as I have been hearing different stories - one story being they will grade them, and the top 50% could be offered a place (if they score highly enough on the main papers), whereas the other 50% will not be offered a place even if their score on the main papers is brilliant (I think that might have been what the Deputy Head said in one of the open days this year). The other story is a suspicion that the creative writing paper will only be brought into play in a tie breaker scenario. If the former stands true then we might as well give up now, as my son's story writing skills in 20 minutes are abysmal. It seems a little unfair for the boys, as I understand their story writing skills don't develop as fast as the girls.
The FOIA information is very interesting, but I do not quite understand it. As I understand it, there is no "eligible score" for Colyton. They simply take the top [110] results and offer those kids the places. If these eligible scores noted in the FOIA response are basically "marks out of 160 needed to get an offer", is this saying that the kids offered a place in those particular years were accepted down to 102 / 104 out of 160? Which seems quite low - we've been told to aim for the 70 plus percentile. Or that there was considered to be an "eligible" threshold, but still only the top 110 students were accepted, which could have been much higher marks than 102 out of 160.
I am trying to work out what chance my son has got based on the three mocks he has so far sat.
And does anyone have any info / gossip on how the creative writing test will factor in, as I have been hearing different stories - one story being they will grade them, and the top 50% could be offered a place (if they score highly enough on the main papers), whereas the other 50% will not be offered a place even if their score on the main papers is brilliant (I think that might have been what the Deputy Head said in one of the open days this year). The other story is a suspicion that the creative writing paper will only be brought into play in a tie breaker scenario. If the former stands true then we might as well give up now, as my son's story writing skills in 20 minutes are abysmal. It seems a little unfair for the boys, as I understand their story writing skills don't develop as fast as the girls.
Statistics: Posted by Cornishrex — Tue Jun 18, 2024 3:07 pm