RESULTS (Birmingham)

[MEDIC]

Congratulations to all the kids and parents who have have achieved desired scores. My daughter's managed to get 229. Just want to ask if she stands a chance of getting into Five ways school? i gather last year's cut off was 232 ish.

[hermanmunster]

MEDIC - you never know from year to year. People try to guess and sometimes they are right and sometimes there are real surprises. I think a few years back people were put off listing certain schools in Surrey as they thought they wouldn't get in, so the effect was that the qualifying score dropped and then they realised they would have got in.

The absolute guaranteed way of your DD not getting is is to not put it on the CAF - if you do put first then it will not affect your chances at the second listed school