CH boys v KES
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:02 am
I would like know people opion on both of these schools .
If you had a choice which would you choose?
If you had a choice which would you choose?
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+1 with the added condition that you must be able pay fees and some of the extra curricular stuff. If money was tight then CHB and pay for all the field trips instead of feesTarget wrote:KES without a shadow of doubt....all the best.
That's food for thoughts also if need extra tution if KES then it's tution on top of fees.Petitpois wrote:+1 with the added condition that you must be able pay fees and some of the extra curricular stuff. If money was tight then CHB and pay for all the field trips instead of feesTarget wrote:KES without a shadow of doubt....all the best.
idem at CHBPetitpois wrote:The Number of A/A* B's are extremely high 70%+
Of course staff at CHB knows about that too and can advice properly. You make me laugh, PP!!! How can the beauty of the grounds at a public school make you so biased? You fell for it!! (kind laugh I have to emphasise as I was also impressed by the grounds at KES and when my DS asked to go there when he was touring the school in year 5, I told him he will go there if he got a scholarship. Of course, I would never have guessed he would get a scholarship, I just wanted to make him work hard on his 11+ prep and the grounds at KES has been a good motor!!! )Petitpois wrote: These people will know very well the requirements for entry to medical school and how a very high GCSE scores, can means less trouble with the UK clinical aptitude test for example.
yes, you have to take this into consideration as many parents chase the A* as the 'sesame word' to open the door for some competitive course at university. Like in a prep school, many parents still pay private tuition on top of the fees. Nowadays, unfortunately, this happens in many GS too when exams loom!! Actually, I ask myself if there has not been an increase of private tuition since ten or twenty years... I had never noticed this mentality in the time of my DD being at GS (that said, I was a bit isolated at that time and did not know all the people I now know. So my perception may be not objective)Sahara1 wrote: That's food for thoughts also if need extra tution if KES then it's tution on top of fees.
What I really appreciate with you PP, is that you can state things which are false but then, you are always ready to correct your views and recognise your error! That is such a good quality!Petitpois wrote:Yep I stand corrected on that one Jane - Camp Hill Boys GCSE's are just verging on the ridiculous. How they manage to get that many A', A*'s is mind boggling.
I forgot to point out a small typing mistake in the GCSE results table for 2015: the column for A% (on the right of the G column) is in fact the column for A*%…Petitpois wrote:How they manage to get that many A', A*'s is mind boggling.