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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.