VERY LATE TESTER
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:27 am
I almost wasn'teven going to bother posting on here for fear of being laughed and sniggered at but changed my mind as you can see.
I had obviously heard of an 11+ test but had no idea of when these were to be taken etc etc. I had looked on Grammar School website's which gave no information on deadlines etc and no information or advice was offered from the middle school, so I just assumed(wrongly) that it would just be done when you receive the information on secondary school's in the new term. I was in Spain and then in hospital the beginning of September. My son came home with the secondary forms so thought I would phone Bucks County(something I now know I should have done along time ago) to be told we had missed the deadline?!! I had no idea and was now so annoyed with myself. I had to send evidence of Spain and my hospital admision and they granted him a late test on appeal due to circumstance's. Got the familiarisation pack then a few day's later discovered the date of testing, he had THREE WEEKS TO THE DATE OF TEST to completely learn everything!! I had in those few day's discovered from here and other site's that people are generally revising/learning technique's for atleast 8 months to a year beforehand!
So, my son has done extremely well so far with the extremely little time he's had, but I know everyone including myself, would not think for minute that it's possible for him to get even near to passing after such a short amount of time, plus there was no private tutoring.
I know you will probably all laugh at me but I just had no idea and did not know of anyone who was going through the process either. I have two other children so good new's is that I will be prepared if they prove to be GS material.
Would you advise an OOC doing the 12+? I should imagine there really would not be much point! The good thing though is that the secondary school's in my catchment are outstanding Ofsted, but I just felt the environment of a GS would better suit my son.
I had obviously heard of an 11+ test but had no idea of when these were to be taken etc etc. I had looked on Grammar School website's which gave no information on deadlines etc and no information or advice was offered from the middle school, so I just assumed(wrongly) that it would just be done when you receive the information on secondary school's in the new term. I was in Spain and then in hospital the beginning of September. My son came home with the secondary forms so thought I would phone Bucks County(something I now know I should have done along time ago) to be told we had missed the deadline?!! I had no idea and was now so annoyed with myself. I had to send evidence of Spain and my hospital admision and they granted him a late test on appeal due to circumstance's. Got the familiarisation pack then a few day's later discovered the date of testing, he had THREE WEEKS TO THE DATE OF TEST to completely learn everything!! I had in those few day's discovered from here and other site's that people are generally revising/learning technique's for atleast 8 months to a year beforehand!
So, my son has done extremely well so far with the extremely little time he's had, but I know everyone including myself, would not think for minute that it's possible for him to get even near to passing after such a short amount of time, plus there was no private tutoring.
I know you will probably all laugh at me but I just had no idea and did not know of anyone who was going through the process either. I have two other children so good new's is that I will be prepared if they prove to be GS material.
Would you advise an OOC doing the 12+? I should imagine there really would not be much point! The good thing though is that the secondary school's in my catchment are outstanding Ofsted, but I just felt the environment of a GS would better suit my son.