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May100

Bambi

That is the way I think it works. It is not simple adding and taking away to the 2 marks our of 64 added together. My DS is born in June so hoping that he is up against other immature June born kids and that June happened to be the month all the bright sparks were born!!

Carebear82

This standardized marking really confuses me. My DD's birthday is in February. Candy Kid my daughters tutor told me as long as they are getting good grades from mid October onwards as you want them to peak at just the right time - I just hope she peaks then! she started off well but Monday came home with 67% though tutor looked at paper yesterday and said that was a hard one

Eastbelfast_mum

DS got 79% of past paper this week, I think that is not bad, but he told me the highest in class is 99%, what's going on??? Nowadays children seems to too smart .

Carebear82

I know a few in my DD class get 98/99% and I was just hoping the were the exception rather than the norm.

May100

Out of my DS class of 25 there's about 3 getting 94-98% in every test. So maybe top 10%. This may increase though as they get more practice. The class average is high 70s in most tests. That's just the experience in our school.

Mumof3boysNI

Hi EastBelfastMum

I would take the scores with a pinch of salt. If they are doing a past paper 63/64 = 98% so you can't get 99%. In my son's class 3 children are regularly scoring in the 90s, there are plenty scoring a lot lower. I think the problem is that the children getting in the 90s are happy telling others the scores but kids not doing so well are keeping quiet about their results.

candy_kid

My DD has no problem with any of the types of questions I think she is just tired of doing tests so I think I won't do any more at home, just do some revision. My DD is a November birthday (18th) so it will be interesting to see what way she gets marked. 1x test before birthday, 1x in November month & 1x December = 3 different age brackets.

May100

I just wish the kids would stop talking about so much about their scores! As Mumof3boys has said - the higher performing kids compete and talk so much about their 90 something marks. Then those still getting decent marks are keeping their heads down and worry that they aren't doing well enough when it fact they are probably doing ok. Roll on.... the end of this....

Jomidd

Hi all, just reading everyone's posts.. Think we are all nervous now and panicking, I've decided I'm going try and stop talking about it so much in front of my son. Had a talk with him and I thought he was coping well but actually he thinks he's not going to get a good score. I personally think he's going do ok but I need to build his confidence. He is getting brilliant scores came home with 2 tests he did in school yesterday and both were 86%. He is not struggling with anything just careless mistakes, If I didn't think he was capable of doing it I wouldn't put him in for it and I keep asking him and he wants to do it. His cousin was 1 of the first to do this format in 2009 and she got 127 and he says he's not that brainy.... Don't think the teacher helped either by saying that the older children tend to do better in the scores, he is a June birthday. ����

Mumof3boysNI

Hi Jomiid

My worry is the fact that I'm hearing of all of these June birthday kids, including my son, regularly scoring in the high 80s and 90s!!!