112 and 118
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:00 pm
I was starting to fell a bit happier about things when I was showing a friend all of our appeal papers and the info we had gathered. Read through the Bucks appeals pamphlet again which says that last year 37% of the 900 appeals were sucessful but over 85% of the successful appeals were for scores of between 116 and 120. Great, I thought, my daughter got 118 so there was hope. Now I am despondent again as recent postings said that with that score there is only a 50% chance of success.
And to make matters worse she only got 112 in the first test and it is worse if there is a big discrepancy. So we obviously have to show that the first score was a blip and can back it up with HT recommendation, top 25% for english and maths and predicted SATS 5s in a very high performing school. Have since found out that a lot of the children who passed also did poorly in the first test (eg 111 but getting 124 in second one). But these scores will not be available, will they? Could it be that the school had not covered a particular type of question. Or the only other reason I could think of that my daughter mucked up the first paper was that she misinterpreted a section, so obviously when she went over those particular questions at the end she thought she had got them right. But surely this would not look good at the appeal as it shows she was careless. Not sure what to do. I'm just hanging on to the hope that two years ago my friends daughter got 110 and 118 and was also an August birth but still won her appeal with no mitigating circumstances.
And to make matters worse she only got 112 in the first test and it is worse if there is a big discrepancy. So we obviously have to show that the first score was a blip and can back it up with HT recommendation, top 25% for english and maths and predicted SATS 5s in a very high performing school. Have since found out that a lot of the children who passed also did poorly in the first test (eg 111 but getting 124 in second one). But these scores will not be available, will they? Could it be that the school had not covered a particular type of question. Or the only other reason I could think of that my daughter mucked up the first paper was that she misinterpreted a section, so obviously when she went over those particular questions at the end she thought she had got them right. But surely this would not look good at the appeal as it shows she was careless. Not sure what to do. I'm just hanging on to the hope that two years ago my friends daughter got 110 and 118 and was also an August birth but still won her appeal with no mitigating circumstances.