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katex 30-06-2008 21:06
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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
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jambutty (Post 600614)
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
Re: 11 Plus
 
No calculator used here but did use a pen and paper for the maths question

jambutty 30-06-2008 21:27
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by katex (Post 600627)
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
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 600637)
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
Re: 11 Plus
 
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
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Loz (Post 600652)
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 :confused:

AccyLass 30-06-2008 21:40
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I got 5:D lol

Loz 30-06-2008 21:43
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonnyboy (Post 600653)
You had to pass an Examination to get into Primary school :confused:
:D my mistake!
Of course i meant Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammer!
God knows how i passed it!

WillowTheWhisp 30-06-2008 22:25
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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
Re: 11 Plus
 
Got the first one wrong after that sorted .. So a nice 7/8 for me

garinda 01-07-2008 00:00
Re: 11 Plus
 
I decided not to take it, as Mummy and Daddy are paying, so it would be a waste of time.:D

garinda 01-07-2008 00:06
Re: 11 Plus
 
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
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by garinda (Post 600737)
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
Re: 11 Plus
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by emamum23 (Post 600743)
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.:rolleyes:


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