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Quasi - I can't see why Adams refuse to publish meaningful results. I found Warwickshire results to be nice and neat - they provide a breakdown SD for all 3 areas, rather than the two Birmingham gives, and a rank order out of all cohort and out of boys/girls, whichever is applicable. I have always advocated schools providing raw marks too for the sake of completeness. It is always worthwhile to know the actual score achieved by the child alongside the age standardised score.
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The HM at Adams argues that not knowing the scores prevents any unhelpful comparisons at a later stage when the boys who were awarded places arrive at school. There is a logic to this but at the same time it potentially gives parents (and their sons) false hope which in my mind is a worse evil. As I understand it, all boys who are 'of grammar school standard' (i.e. have 'passed' the test) are sent letters 'strongly recommending' that an application is made on their behalf - even if their standardised score is well below the realistic cut-off. They then have 6 months to wait for disappointment to arrive in the post. I think the HM at Adams is wrong but he is a man of strong opinions and is very unlikely to change course! When my own DS1 sat the test 3 years ago+ we ticked the box for QMGS as well and got the score from them, but that option is now closed as has been noted on this forum. The only way to get the score is to apply to sit at QMGS (and hope you are not redirected to Adams) or make a freedom of information/data protection request (quite a hassle) but my understanding is that this would not necessarily arrive in time for the LEA application cut off date.