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Hertfordshire (South West) • Re: 3 weeks and.. ?

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Refer to my answer to your last question 3 weeks ago. You absolutely cannot convert a % from a test (especially a mock test) into a standardised score. The only rough exceptions being 0% and 100% because the standardised score is dependent on other children's scores and their months of birth.

Neither of my sons did mocks so I can't answer your question but please note this, and I have no intention of being rude, that for the last 2 years on this forum you have been asking the same 2 or 3 questions multiple times packaged in a different way. Myself and other forum members have answered your questions in the best way possible without knowing your child or your situation, yet you keep coming back with the same questions. I suspect that you are getting stressed about it and by extension you are putting too much stress onto your child.

I assume you have gone out of your way to find out what the average score required to get in to some of the schools you wish to list on your CAF and whether it is feasible or not. Some will have distance only, so Google Earth measuring tool should help, some are by postcode so you should know whether your area is in catchment (inner or outer if applicable) or not in catchment (which means you have 0% chance of getting a place), some will require the test (result you won't know until later) and some will require a combination of these.

In October 2022 you asked about moving from HA5, I replied that Croxley Green would be suitable for WBGS, Rickmansworth, SCD and Croxley Danes. Obviously I have no idea whether it was financially feasible to do so in the meantime or if you were really serious about it at all; yet fairly recently you were still asking questions about travel from HA5.

My final advice to you on this matter is this: You have a few weeks left, by now you should know what needs improvement, i.e. timekeeping, vocab, etc. focus solely on those without too much pressure. Once it's done, it's done, you get the results in mid-October. However when preparing the CAF form you should still enter in the schools that you really want, with the one you want most at the top, however you really must put an 'insurance' school in the final slot in case you don't get any of the higher preference schools when notified on 1st March which school is allocated, if you don't get a place at any of the higher ranked choices you can choose to go on a waiting list for them.

The insurance school, should be a school which if worst comes to worst, that is more preferable to other schools in your area that you would consider undesirable. Once you get the test score in mid-October, it should give you an idea of what is realistic and what is not. There's no harm in wasting one slot on the CAF for an unrealistic (but above 0%) chance of getting but you ought not to waste all choices on little-to-no-chance of getting.

Statistics: Posted by Otter — Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:39 pm



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