11 Plus - Page 3

katex · 30-06-2008, 21:06

Haven't done it .. 'cause just know would be a piece of cake ... LOL.

Did the first one .. a simple maths question manually, but just wondering how many of you used a calculator .. come on admit it. We didn't have them then, did we ?

Not a matter of if you got 6-8 either, if they had some extremely high results and more pupils than the allocated spaces got this result, they would cream off the top 90 approx who got 7/8 (or even 8). As in other years, if low results, children would get entry if only 5/6.

lancsdave · 30-06-2008, 21:22

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Originally Posted by jambutty

Paint is to brush as ink is to pen lancsdave. The pen writes with ink and a brush paints with paint. You don’t paint with hair.

I always paint my masterpieces with brushes made from natural hair

BERNADETTE · 30-06-2008, 21:24

No calculator used here but did use a pen and paper for the maths question

jambutty · 30-06-2008, 21:27

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Originally Posted by katex

Haven't done it .. 'cause just know would be a piece of cake ... LOL.

Did the first one .. a simple maths question manually, but just wondering how many of you used a calculator .. come on admit it. We didn't have them then, did we ?

Not a matter of if you got 6-8 either, if they had some extremely high results and more pupils than the allocated spaces got this result, they would cream off the top 90 approx who got 7/8 (or even 8). As in other years, if low results, children would get entry if only 5/6.

I did it the old fashioned way.

Two thirds of 834 – divide by 3 and multiply by 2 =556
23 times 185 = 4255
4255 – 556 = 3689

But as you have highlighted. It wasn’t the 11+ itself but the way that the allocations were made.

jambutty · 30-06-2008, 21:29

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

I always paint my masterpieces with brushes made from natural hair

But you use paint to do it with.

And that was the point a pen uses ink and a brush uses paint not hair.

Loz · 30-06-2008, 21:36

I failed this one got 5/8 but did pass my exam in 1999 to get into bacup and rawtenstall primary!
Oh well didn't end up there anyway!

Bonnyboy · 30-06-2008, 21:38

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Originally Posted by Loz

I failed this one got 5/8 but did pass my exam in 1999 to get into bacup and rawtenstall primary!
Oh well didn't end up there anyway!

You had to pass an Examination to get into Primary school

AccyLass · 30-06-2008, 21:40

I got 5

lol

Loz · 30-06-2008, 21:43

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Originally Posted by Bonnyboy

You had to pass an Examination to get into Primary school

my mistake!
Of course i meant Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammer!
God knows how i passed it!

WillowTheWhisp · 30-06-2008, 22:25

I got 8.

The idea of the 11 plus was to be able to group people of similar abilities together and teach pupils according to their ability. Therefore someone who is dyslexic being allocated to a secondary modern school doesn't mean they were classified as thick. It should have meant that they wouldn't be out of their depth as can often happen when they are expected to be able to read and make notes quickly. I know because one of my daughters has struggled with this.

cherokee · 30-06-2008, 22:46

Got the first one wrong after that sorted .. So a nice 7/8 for me

garinda · 01-07-2008, 00:00

I decided not to take it, as Mummy and Daddy are paying, so it would be a waste of time.

garinda · 01-07-2008, 00:06

I did actually take the eleven plus in 1976, and passed, even though the concept of Grammar school education in Hyndburn had already ended the year before.

I'm in two minds about it. It does seem fairly harsh that your life is pretty well mapped out at eleven, on the results of one examination.

Some of the most intelligent, and successful people I know have never passed an exam in their life.

emamum · 01-07-2008, 00:43

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Originally Posted by garinda

I did actually take the eleven plus in 1976, and passed, even though the concept of Grammar school education in Hyndburn had already ended the year before.

I'm in two minds about it. It does seem fairly harsh that your life is pretty well mapped out at eleven, on the results of one examination.

Some of the most intelligent, and successful people I know have never passed an exam in their life.

and some of the stupidest people i know have GCSE'S lol

garinda · 01-07-2008, 00:47

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Originally Posted by emamum23

and some of the stupidest people i know have GCSE'S lol

...and let's not even get on to MENSA.

Some of the people I know with a supposedly high IQ, have the social skills of turnips.