Today's English exam

Bexley Mum 2 · Post by **Bexley Mum 2** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:42 pm

Hi, I wondered if anyone had any feedback on today's Bexley English exam (I'm not using the new Bexley site because you can only use it if you are registered and I haven't done that yet). General opinions were that it was OK, but my son said the punctuation section was hard. He reckoned there were about 10 punctuation questions out of a total of 60 and he had to guess quite a lot. Now I'm feeling guilty for not having spent more time with him on punctuation. I don't want to give him the 3rd degree but 10 punctuation questions out of 60 seems a lot, given there were two comprehensions - anybody any ideas?

l_bexley · Post by **l_bexley** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:36 pm

Son agrees that there were about 10 punctuation questions.

Hope this helps.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:23 pm

My daughter sat the test. She said the same, about 10 questions and two comprehensions.

traceyanne · Post by **traceyanne** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:27 am

Was anybody else warned about 2 comprehensions? My daughter also found more than the usual 'n's in the punctuation excersise. We've been told there is normally only one or two 'no mistakes' in these tests so we're worried she hasn't done too well in the punctuation as well.

l_bexley · Post by **l_bexley** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:46 am

Son thinks there was only one "N" - but he's not particularly great at punctuation, so who knows!

Bex mum · Post by **Bex mum** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:27 pm

My daughter also said that for the punctuation and spelling exercises she found 2 answers in each that seemed right so she put 'n' - i was also only expecting 1 question to be like that. She missed one of her tests because she was ill - i'd be grateful if anyone has had experience of this and knows when they have to take it by?

Alice73 · Post by **Alice73** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:15 pm

My daughter put several 'n's as well, I thought, it was more than should be.