11 Plus Exams Forum

Help please. Before I embarrass myself completely and call the Director of Studies what do these results mean? I can't make head nor tail of them - they look OK I think, but what it the benchmark?

I think they are all standardised in the same way someone please correct me if I am wrong.
For the ones my DS took any thing over 110 shows a strength and under 95 shows a weakness I think maximum score is 140.

Thankyou, but I am being particularly dense and really don't see the point/understand Are they supposed to predict your GCSE grade?

Depends how your dc's school do predictions. My dd2 got very high CAT scores, but because her school use Fisher Family Trust, I think, her (non-existent) ks2 sats and her postcode seemed to be more important and her 'official' predicted grades are two or three below what her teachers are telling us they're expecting from her. I assume that if she wants to change for sixth form that the school will provide her with realistic predictions, otherwise I'm not worrying about it.

The school has spent money doing them so presumably uses them in some way. Only they can tell you how they use them. I would ask.

At my son's grammar they were used to judge whether a child was doing better or worse than expected and kind of influenced the judgement of effort. They can be flawed so I think this could have resulted in them praising some backsliding kids.