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The
debate over selective education in Kent continues, but if you had
to sit the 11 Plus how would you get on?
Take
our online exam just for fun.
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We've got a
Verbal Reasoning paper, one part of the 11 Plus exam, courtesy of elevenplus.com.
This paper
counts for about a third of the total marks in the 11 Plus exam in Kent,
and around a fifth of the total in Medway.
So, how did
you do?
46 - 50
- Excellent
41 - 45 - Very Good
35 - 40 - Good
31 - 34 - Average
Under 35 - Almost there
The pass
mark for the actual 11 Plus is dependent on the scores of those taking
the exam, how many entrants there are, how many places the school has,
and the quality of entrants.
Allowances
are made for age discrepancies ( i.e. between children born in September
and those born nearly a year later in August.) This system, called standardisation,
can make quite a lot of difference.
Kate Jackson
has attended both comprehensive and grammar schools. Read her arguments
for and against both systems. Where does she think comprehensives fail
and are grammar schools as supportive of struggling students?
Kate's
views
What do you
think of selective education? Dennis thinks "the results speak for
themselves. Grammar schools work", where as George sees the system
as "socially divisive".
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