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View Poll Results: How would do if you took the 11 plus?
6 - 8 Grammar School 32 82.05%
3 - 5 Secondary Modern School 6 15.38%
0 - 2 Technical School 1 2.56%
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Old 30-06-2008, 16:25   #1
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11 Plus

How would do if you had to take the 11 plus?
Give it a try here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/7478154.stm
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Old 30-06-2008, 16:27   #2
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I failed it the first time round, so I am not about to do that again.
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Old 30-06-2008, 16:55   #3
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Got the bricks one wrong
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Old 30-06-2008, 16:59   #4
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I passed in 1952 but failed today - I must have lost some grey matter with the passage of time.
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:04   #5
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I managed a respectable 7.... Have to admit that some of those questions were quite difficult.
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:07   #6
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Six out of eight, here. Got the who/whom/what one wrong, and the number sequence (still don't understand that one).
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:16   #7
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I got 7 and would argue that I should have had 8

The one about the brush I chose hair, which to me is equally as valid as paint

Good to see when I passed all those years ago I've maintained my brain level even if my body hasn't kept up
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:16   #8
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Well fail my 11 Plus but I'm now Grammar school material 7 out of 8
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:24   #9
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I passed in 1952 but failed today
You've made me feel quite young, 1952, I wasn't even a twinkle in my daddies eye. You were a teenager when I passed mine.
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:42   #10
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I got the stokolm/skokolm one wrong
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Old 30-06-2008, 17:54   #11
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lol secondary modern for me
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Old 30-06-2008, 18:00   #12
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I got 8.

I passed mine in 1981 and I am sure their were a lot more questions back then
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Old 30-06-2008, 18:03   #13
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I got the Who/ whom question wrong.
I was borderline first time round and my mother chose to send me to the sec. mod.!!
I am conversant with the current 11+ exams and I think the one the BBc is using is harder but then it has less choices thereby making the probability of guessing the correct answer higher.

The Stockholm question definitely discriminates against dyslexics and it could also be argued that the paint question does also.
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Old 30-06-2008, 18:04   #14
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I got eight out of eight. If that's a true representation of '11 Plus' questions then exams are definitely not easier now. They're really much the same.
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Old 30-06-2008, 18:11   #15
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The Stockholm question definitely discriminates against dyslexics and it could also be argued that the paint question does also.

Maybe that is the idea.
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