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Confused-dad_2

In my opinion 104 is a great score and I would be a lot more confident if my child had 104.
Regarding your other question, I personally would stay out of it unless I knew the parents really well.My child scored 95 but the principal told me to put grammars before the scondary schools.

kingston_2730

Ok honest opinions please: my child scored 102. His first choice grammar school accepted all their As and B1s in 2007 and 2008. Last year they accepted 21 out of 23 of their B1s.What do you think his chances are? 90 % of places will go in strict rank order and then a pool will be chosen for the remaining 10 %. He does not have brother or sister at school but is eldest child.

kingston_2730

Confused-dad wrote: »

In my opinion 104 is a great score and I would be a lot more confident if my child had 104.
Regarding your other question, I personally would stay out of it unless I knew the parents really well.My child scored 95 but the principal told me to put grammars before the scondary schools.

With score of 95 I would be putting first choices down but also include grammars which have accepted B2s in the past.

Tommy80

kingston_2730 wrote: »

How did you work this out and do you think it is accurate? Interestingly, this is similar to what I was told by the principle of my son's first choice grammar school. She told me that they had done their own calculations and that my son's mark of 102 was bordering on an A which is very different to the stats from AQE.

I simply calculated the % scoring each grade in the GL test, or to be more exact the percentile required for each grade, and equated these to the AQE bands.

e.g. 3000 As out of 6500 is approx 46%; therefore quintiles 1 and 2 are As, as are the top 6% of quintile 3 - this equates to scores of 103 and above.

To me the grade boundaries are much more exact than those suggested by AQE - in fact what they suggest do not relate at all to previous 11+ values, and only serve to confuse the children and their parents!!

kingston_2730

Well if what you are saying is correct then my son's score of 102 means that it is a very top B1, which is what his top choice grammar school principle had told me. Have to say though that I was told that this was incorrect by a different grammar school principle and that his score of 102 is a low B1. For us it is the difference between him getting into his top choice or not. Tommy80, it would be wonderful if your calculations turn out to be accurate. Thanks for posting!!

Ex-Spendaholic

Kingston I think your son's chances are good based on previous years intakes. In the schools we are applying to they are using strict rank order for all the places but in the case of a tiebreaker eg 2 kids on the same score for the last place then they will use sibling at school/eldest child as an equal thing ie a child with a sibling at the school will be treated the same as the eldest child of the family. They then go to distance from home to school which is calculated in a straight line apparently.

kingston_2730

Thanks Ex-Spendaholic, our first choice school is accepting the first 90% on rank order. The unfortunate part for us may be the next bit...the remaining 10% of places will be from a pool of the next highest marks. These marks will then be pooled and considered equal. They will then be given places according to 1.sibling at the school 2.eldest child in family and so on. SO this means that if my son does not get a place in the first 90%, he would be placed in this pool with others say for example with marks down to 97. Essentially this means that a child with a mark of 97 could get in before my son who scored 102, because the child has a sibling that already attends the school. That is why I am so concerned as to whether his mark is a high or a low B1. As this is a very popular school, there are a lot of kids applying with slightly lower marks than my son but who have a sibling at the school. At the moment there are a few of them who are telling my son that even though their mark his lower than his, they will get in first as they have a sibling at the school and they are right. My son is incredulous that this could happen and I must say I do agree with him...it just doesn't seem fair.

Ex-Spendaholic

You're right it isn't fair. They should have stuck with strict rank order. Do these people not realise the effect this is going to have on kids? Imagine going through life knowing you had done really well in an exam but didn't get the school of your choice because the child with 10 marks lower had a brother at the school. So unfair. Are they bringing the free school meals into it too?

kingston_2730

His second choice is bringing the free school meals into it...don't even get me started there!! The people who work are the ones penalised (as usual)!!! Only one of the schools my son has put down is basing it on rank order only and that is BRA, his 3rd choice, the other 3 are doing the 90% rank order and the other 10% according to this pool!!

ni-mum

kingston_2730 wrote: »

His second choice is bringing the free school meals into it...don't even get me started there!! The people who work are the ones penalised (as usual)!!! Only one of the schools my son has put down is basing it on rank order only and that is BRA, his 3rd choice, the other 3 are doing the 90% rank order and the other 10% according to this pool!!

Do they have prep schools. It looks like a lot of schools that are doing banding or pooling are doing it so their prep pupils get a place.