Can you pass the 11+? Free 10 min test:

Smamfer

Discodee wrote: »

Current pass mark is 236 out of 282. They also add a mark and a half on for each month after Sept your birthday is.
My DD took the 11 plus 3 years ago. She got 277 out of 282. (She's an October birthday too). She had no tuiton though. Some of the kids at grammar school cannot speak correct English, and have no grasp of spelling or punctuation. They've just been tutored as their parents are rich. The system is a joke. Grammar school is often a status symbol; doesn't matter if their kids end up being pushed beyond their capabilities. But that said it is the fault of the system. It should go on the child's ability in school and if an entrance exam is required it should consist of Maths English and Science not VR!

May i add that different counties and schools have different pass marks.

My daughter took her 11+ this year in september we got the results end of october to find she was only one who passed. The pass rate at her grammar school is 220 out of 280 and this was over 2 papers. A verbal reasoning and a non verbal reasoning. There were 500 girls who took this exam and only 150 spaces. It is also in the top 10 of the east midlands so rather hard to get into. This year though for the first time ever not enough passed and they were actually ringing round families whose children were close and asking them to appeal to go before aboard to put their point across to get their child in. This apparently had never happened before

Pip26

Okay everyone, here's one for after the Christmas dinner when all the cracker jokes have been done (maths).


Three people go into a restaurant for a Christmas meal at £10.00 a head (yes, that is cheap!). The food was okay but they thought the portions were a bit on the mean side. After they had paid, the waiter came to ask if everything was okay so they asked him to tell the chef that the portions were less than generous.

Feeling in the Christmas spirit, the Chef told the waiter to knock £5.00 off the bill.

Feeling not quite so much in the Christmas spirit, the waiter thought, 'Aha - they don't know what the Chef said so I'll tell them he knocked £1.00 of per head' and pocketed the other £2.00.

He went back to the table and gave them £1.00 each.

They were satisfied paying £9.00 each.

Their bill totalled £27.00 .... the waiter had pocketed £2.00 making a total of £29.00.

Where has the other £1.00 gone????!!!!!!!!!

I think this is really puzzling but neice looked at me as if I was bonkers because she could work it out without even thinking about it!!!!!!

(if you get it, don't post the answer straight away) or at least warn me to shut my eyes/not read post at beginning! ... I'm still thinking.

RedBooties_2

Pip26 wrote: »

Three people go into a restaurant for a Christmas meal at £10.00 a head (yes, that is cheap!). The food was okay but they thought the portions were a bit on the mean side.

How is it cheap if the portions are on the mean side?

Pip26 wrote: »

Chef told the waiter to knock £5.00 off the bill.

waiter thought, 'I'll tell them he knocked £1.00 of per head' and pocketed the other £2.00.

Their bill totalled £27.00 .... the waiter had pocketed £2.00 making a total of £29.00.

Where has the other £1.00 gone????!!!!!!!!!

(if you get it, don't post the answer straight away) or at least warn me to shut my eyes/not read post at beginning! ... I'm still thinking.

OK, http://www.rot13.com/ encoded:

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A few scams rely on this kind of trickery in money exchanges.

beccam

14/15 with 6mins left on the clock!!:)
Any wonder I passed 11+ with flying colours??
To be fair any kids that are doing it will be studying these things daily where most of us haven't had to work out numerical sequences in a long time!!
Like the article said, this is the last year Northern Ireland is having the compulsory 11+, don't think it should go and especially not as there is nothing in its place yet!

Tinman

Theres too many clever dicks on this forum.:mad:;)

Pip26

http://www.rot13.com/ - thanks redbooties

- have so far managed to resist looking at the answer!!!

Zreel Puevfgznf naq n Unccl Arj Lrne!

Pip26

Tinman wrote: »

Theres too many clever dicks on this forum.:mad:;)

Shame I'm not one of them!!!

jumblejack

Pip26 wrote: »

Shame I'm not one of them!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

rosebarn

14 out of 15.
Couldn't get the last one.
And its so simple when you know the answer! doh

kohlstream78

full marks in 5 mins. Got full marks on the real thing too. 8-)