Test - Help
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:49 pm
Hi All
I am beginning to think about 11+ for ds2 in 2010 - I know - more than a year away but don't think he can cram the week before like ds1 did with the NFER paper!!
Regarding the "new" 11+ test I have the following information from the Warwickshire LA Website:
Each test will be of 45 minutes duration:
Paper 1 will include:
20 minutes verbal reasoning
10 minutes short maths questions
15 minutes comprehension
Paper 2 will include:
15 minutes longer maths questions
10 minutes data processing questions
10 minutes non verbal reasoning
10 minutes missing words in paragraph test (‘clozed test’)
Please can you tell me if the answers are multiple choice or if the child has to think of their own answer?
If there is a mixture - which was which style?
I love verbal reasoning, but see from some posts here that last year's test was not the usual question types - so which question types to get my youngest to practice? - which books will be helpful?
Is there any practice material for the data processing and cloze test?
Oh and to all who have appeals coming up in the next few weeks - all the best!
Thanks
K
(youngest - refers to the son the 11+ is relevant to - not any competition I want to start about parents' age!! I know names start with a capital letter - shame about my typing skills and now I'm stuck without my capital letter!!)
I am beginning to think about 11+ for ds2 in 2010 - I know - more than a year away but don't think he can cram the week before like ds1 did with the NFER paper!!
Regarding the "new" 11+ test I have the following information from the Warwickshire LA Website:
Each test will be of 45 minutes duration:
Paper 1 will include:
20 minutes verbal reasoning
10 minutes short maths questions
15 minutes comprehension
Paper 2 will include:
15 minutes longer maths questions
10 minutes data processing questions
10 minutes non verbal reasoning
10 minutes missing words in paragraph test (‘clozed test’)
Please can you tell me if the answers are multiple choice or if the child has to think of their own answer?
If there is a mixture - which was which style?
I love verbal reasoning, but see from some posts here that last year's test was not the usual question types - so which question types to get my youngest to practice? - which books will be helpful?
Is there any practice material for the data processing and cloze test?
Oh and to all who have appeals coming up in the next few weeks - all the best!
Thanks
K
(youngest - refers to the son the 11+ is relevant to - not any competition I want to start about parents' age!! I know names start with a capital letter - shame about my typing skills and now I'm stuck without my capital letter!!)