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Forum: General Chat 07-07-2008, 18:59

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus So the quiz was correct in that the 11+ did contain story writing because pupils wrote stories in Primary school. Come on katex, you know that I didn’t state that destroying was taught in...

Forum: General Chat 07-07-2008, 18:52

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus Then remain mystified or better still brush up on your understanding of the English language. I have 4 children (all adults now), 11 grandchildren some still at school (thus they are the youth of...

Forum: General Chat 07-07-2008, 18:27

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus I don’t. It was a response to your attempt in having a dig at me. But the remark that you refer to is a question denoted by the question mark at the end of the sentence. My 71 years of age...

Forum: General Chat 07-07-2008, 17:54

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus Which remark would that be? There are three remarks and one question. It can’t be the question because a question cannot be wrong. Rather than trying (and failing) to take a poke at me and...

Forum: General Chat 07-07-2008, 17:46

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus I can’t remember my 11+ back in 1948 but the book of quizzes was listing exams from the 40’s and 50’s. It does state, “Test your knowledge with these genuine questions from the original...

Forum: General Chat 07-07-2008, 11:32

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus That’s a pity because getting pupils to write stories exercises their imagination as well grammar, punctuation and spelling. Compared to being creative, finding someone else’s mistakes is easy. ...

Forum: General Chat 06-07-2008, 20:59

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus At 11 years of age spelling and grammar would not be such a big issue. However the content of the story and how it was structured would. However if your forte is going to be politics, then...

Forum: General Chat 06-07-2008, 18:38

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus So English grammar and arithmetic is common sense is it? Actually your score was 7/8. I know that the questionnaire assumed that you would write a story about a scarecrow and gave the point...

Forum: General Chat 01-07-2008, 02:44

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus Ooooops! Typo 3699

Forum: General Chat 30-06-2008, 21:29

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus But you use paint to do it with. And that was the point a pen uses ink and a brush uses paint not hair.

Forum: General Chat 30-06-2008, 21:27

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus 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...

Forum: General Chat 30-06-2008, 20:48

Replies: 84 Poll: 11 Plus Views: 2,344 Posted By jambutty Re: 11 Plus I got 7/8 and also did well in my 11 plus for real all those years ago. Not quite good enough for a Grammar School but good enough for the Accrington Secondary Technical School in Ossy. I went...

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