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bangor_dad

There are clearly lots of very worried parents out there. Basically the only problem is due to the fact that the system is new. Anyone who got in the top two quintiles have equivalent to an A so really should not have anything to be concerned about unless their grammar school normally turns away some A grades. For kids in the 3rd & 4th quintile it really depends on the demand for places at your school so nothing new there.

bangor_dad

vido wrote: »

Hi P7 you say few got quintile 1 but surely as there were roughly 7000 kids sitting the AQE the top 20% are in the top quintile and each other quintile also contains 20% which would mean that there are roughly 1400 kids in each of the quintiles.

I really worry if you are a P7 teacher as you are clearly sending out a misleading message. Need to get your basic maths books out are revise what quintiles actually mean.

ni-mum

confused_mum wrote: »

I have read all the comments and have heard that the top score achieved in the AQE test was 128 apparently this was lower than anticipated and they are now thinking that the top pass mark of 145 was set to high therefore all the children who were in the second quintile have quite possibly achieved the equivalent to an A in the old system. My child achieved a score of 107 so if that is the case it certainly gives me some hope of getting a place in a grammer school.

I thought 145 was maximum achievable, ie 100%, and no-one got all the questions right. The quintile ranges would have been set after the marks were known so there are around 1400 in the each quintile.

Ex-Spendaholic

Where those quintiles not around even before the papers were taken? I'm nearly sure they were.

Bangor Dad, at least though with the old system you knew where you stood. You knew what an A, B1 etc was rather than these numbers that we have now.

BTW, does anyone know how the age standardisation thing worked? From the intial AQE communications I believed that the results page would show a raw score (to 2 decimal places) and then the age standardisation. That clearly hasn't been shown. I maybe paranoid in all this but the kids I know with the best marks are the eldest of the bunch.

ni-mum

Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

Where those quintiles not around even before the papers were taken? I'm nearly sure they were.

Bangor Dad, at least though with the old system you knew where you stood. You knew what an A, B1 etc was rather than these numbers that we have now.

BTW, does anyone know how the age standardisation thing worked? From the intial AQE communications I believed that the results page would show a raw score (to 2 decimal places) and then the age standardisation. That clearly hasn't been shown. I maybe paranoid in all this but the kids I know with the best marks are the eldest of the bunch.

The child with the best mark I've heard has a January birthday and one of the worst was born in August.

kingston_2730

My son scored 102 on the test. We were given a chart by one of the local grammer schools who had this score in the third band (97-103) with this equating to B1s and strong B2s. Today I spoke with the principle of a different local grammer school who told me in actual fact my son's score of 102 is right at the top of the B1s and bordering on an A!! She said that they had done their own calculations and she was very confident that these were accurate. This is the principle of what is considered to be one of the best grammers in NI. I was so ecstatic I danced around our office at work. After calming down and thinking about it a bit I decided that this seemed too good to be true. I then rang the first grammer school's principle who had published the chart and told him that the other principle had told me my son's mark of 102 was a strong B1 and bordering on an A. He became a bit annoyed and said that he had spoke to other principles and they had all agreed that the original chart they had published was quite accurate. This really burst my bubble. I then decided to ring a 3rd local grammer school and spoke to their principle who advised that he felt that the figures published in first school's chart were pessimistic and that he was siding with the 2nd principle who stated that 102 is a strong B1, bordering on A!! Totally confused I then rang the principle of my son's primary school who told me to take it all with a pinch of salt and that basically none of them have any idea. Its soul destroying. Can I ask for a sweep on what people on here think 102 might be equivalent to? Please be honest and state what you really think

Ex-Spendaholic

That puts paid to that theory then. :rotfl:

Ex-Spendaholic

Kingston, the general feeling is that it is roughly a B1. My child has 104 and I too would be ecstatic if it suddenly equated to an A.

I'm wondering if AQE are going to put out any sort of statement on all of this. Kids are confused, parents are confused, primary teachers are confused and Grammar School Principals don't seem to have a clue either. Surely to god someone is going to clear this all up for us? :mad:

ni-mum

bangor_dad wrote: »

If P7 population is roughly the same as last year then 25% of 23,000
is 5,750, so to have the equivalent of an A you would need to be in the top 5,750 (across AQE &GL tests) this is equivalent to the top 42% of those sitting the tests.

So if you split 5750 between the 2 tests, then roughly 2875 would be an A. As each quintile is 1400, then top two would be an A, and at the very top of the third quintile would also be an A.

bangor_dad

Kingston, by my reckoning an A is roughly top 42%, 40% brings you to 106 so 42% roughly 105. B1 is then the next 7.5% roughly, which is 102 - 104. B2 is the next 7.5% 99 - 101.