AQE Exam Results

Stressed_mum_2

I've been reading this thread from the start, but just thought I would say that I have heard that the Methody head expects to take all children in the top 2 quintiles and some of the top marks in the 3rd quintile - though he obviously can't guarantee that until he knows the number applying. I also know that Grosvenor have written to local primary schools encouraging parents to put them as their first choice. Apparently they are panicking that this year they will be undersubscribed because parents don't know if their child's mark is enough to get them in so are choosing an alternative.
Hope this helps some people out there!
Thanks to everyone posting on here - it really has been a lifesaver over the last fortnight.

v._interested

Search google for Age Standardised Scores and you should find wesite entitlled testandexams......

I cannot post link but basically go to Qualification and Curriculum Authority website and search for Age Standardised Scores.

The confidence range just blows my mind!

Chip_9691

Chip_9691 wrote: »

Does each quintile not contain 20% of the scores acheived not the number of pupils who acheived them. i fear that the AQE don't understand their own marking system.

Take this as an example, 20 kids take a test top mark 98-lowest 10 out of 100.

Scores as follows:
98,98,97,65,64,62,61,60,60,60,60,50,42,41,41,40,38,30,20,10.

So if we take the range from 98 to 10 = 88 and divide it by 5 we then have our quintiles.

1st - Above 80 = 3 kids
2nd – 79- 62 = 3 kids
3rd – 61-44 = 6 kids
4th – 43-26 = 6 kids
5th – below 25 = 2

If you put the above scores in the quintiles you can see what happens, there isn’t 4 kids in each.
The top mark achievable was 100 but the best actually was only 98.

If there were 7000 results the most would be around the average and would fall in the 3rd quintile.

beccasmum

So are you saying that there are not 1400 chilren in each quintile? This is getting more confusing, we need more info from AQE. Surely a quintile means a 1/5 of the total number who took this test. Please someone explain more. Thanks. Also anyone from North Antrim area?

dark_horse_4

Chip_9691 wrote: »

Take this as an example, 20 kids take a test top mark 98-lowest 10 out of 100.

Scores as follows:
98,98,97,65,64,62,61,60,60,60,60,50,42,41,41,40,38,30,20,10.

So if we take the range from 98 to 10 = 88 and divide it by 5 we then have our quintiles.

1st - Above 80 = 3 kids
2nd – 79- 62 = 3 kids
3rd – 61-44 = 6 kids
4th – 43-26 = 6 kids
5th – below 25 = 2

If you put the above scores in the quintiles you can see what happens, there isn’t 4 kids in each.
The top mark achievable was 100 but the best actually was only 98.

If there were 7000 results the most would be around the average and would fall in the 3rd quintile.

Thats nonsense

vido

Just a thought, maybe someone has already done this and if so could they post and let us know of the reply, if any. Has anyone contacted the AQE office and gave them a link to this forum, pointing out the angst and bewilderment these results are causing to parents and also letting them know of yesterday's Irish News article and the subsequent posts regarding contacting others in the local press and television. If it was also pointed out that due to lack of information on the scores people with a political agenda may take the opportunity to seize on the confusion and take advantage of what may be a little naivety on the AQE's behalf then they may be a little less reluctant to issue scores, percentages etc.

v._interested

dark_horse wrote: »

Thats nonsense

The notice from AQE issued to us all clearly does state SCORE RANGE and does not state candidate range therefore seems reasonable that Chip is correct , please explain why nonsense!

beccasmum

v. interested, I tend to agree with you as if the mark is merely a candidate range then why does it not start at the top ie 145 and work its way down. The fact that the higest is 128 proves that it relates to scores.

BangorMum

The Quintiles are the percentage of children achieving the scores!, i.e. the top 20% of results in the 1st quintile, the next 20% in the 2nd so the above example should have 4 children in each quintile. However, what I find amazing is that the AQE notice before the tests suggested that they anticipated the 1st 20% of children achieving a score of 113+ and that didnt change when the results arrived (even though the top result was apparently only 128). Also I doubt they have factored into their equation that there will be quite a number of children who sat both tests and with the majority of GL scores being higher those children will use that route, throwing their quintiles out completely!

dark_horse_4

v._interested wrote: »

The notice from AQE issued to us all clearly does state SCORE RANGE and does not state candidate range therefore seems reasonable that Chip is correct , please explain why nonsense!

Score range is correct but there is still 20% of pupils in each quintile.

The mark given is only representative of the childs actual score but within each quintile fall 20% of the scores obtained by the total number of candidates – so 20% of scores fall between 145 and 113, 20% between 112 and 106 and so on.