Transfer Test AQE 2015-2016 *NEW THREAD*

BOBS

fishing_mad wrote: »

Even if it were financially viable for us to have our son tutored, I would be inclined not to do so, as I feel competent to undertake the work and have the time to do so. However, I can understand people feeling the need to rely on a tutor because the curriculum - as taught in my son's school - does not cover what is on the test.

the AQE is based on the key stage curriculum and primary schools should have covered what is on the papers.

Mrsmagoo

Hi ,
I've been. Keeping any eye on forum and it's helped massively to know I'm not only one worried

To be honest been doing work over last two summers since p5 and it has helped , now it is finally coming together a little but I'm sure my daughter fed up of it all .

She really wants to do well for herself , we haven't discussed school yet , I said will talk about after as one thing at a time.
She was doing really well end p6 and over summer in 70/75 , I've been doin windmill test but now switched to transfer test ones and got 98 % last week on one .???
Great for confidence , think layout of transfer test are user friendly ,

Former_MSE_Megan

Hi guys,

Please remember that posting copyrighted material is against forum rules, so we'll have to take anything like that down.

Hopefully exam season is over by now but it will be booting back up in December/January for some so good luck for then!

Thanks

Cherryscone

MSE_Megan wrote: »

Hi guys,

Please remember that posting copyrighted material is against forum rules, so we'll have to take anything like that down.

Hopefully exam season is over by now but it will be booting back up in December/January for some so good luck for then!

Thanks

Not over for us here with Children in P7 .

fishing_mad

BOBS wrote: »

the AQE is based on the key stage curriculum and primary schools should have covered what is on the papers.

As I have already made quite clear, my son's school has not covered most of the material assessed in the AQE examination.

MiaMam

Hi can I join in please?? My daughter is in P7 and I'm doing the work with her although the school are doing a lot of prep too. We're currently working our way through the CEA papers! Would love to chat to other parents for support!!

fishing_mad

Hello MiaMam,
Welcome to the forum.
How is your daughter finding these papers?

Cherryscone

fishing_mad wrote: »

As I have already made quite clear, my son's school has not covered most of the material assessed in the AQE examination.

And neither has my sons school :mad:

Cherryscone

fishing_mad wrote: »

Hello MiaMam,
Welcome to the forum.
How is your daughter finding these papers?

Welcome MiaMam

MiaMam

Cherryscone wrote: »

Not over for us here with Children in P7 .

Thanks for the welcome! She's doing well so far (I think!). We did two tests a week during the summer hols and so far, she's done all of The Belfast Telegraph papers and is halfway through our second set of CEAs. So far she's averaging early 80s (percent) as a score.

I'm happy with this as it should be more than enough for our local grammar. There is another school further away she's considering though who's scores are higher so she would need to keep her score higher to get in there. I wish the points thing was clearer though!!! It's so hard to correlate the practice paper scores to an actual AQE score!

How are other non tutoring parents getting on?