Nightmare 11 plus resits ?
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As many children gained an advantage afters seeing the GL 11 plus papers prior to sitting them and results for two schools have been rendered null and void and children have to resit the exams.The stress for the innocent children must be enormous but no hint of it in the article.
Am I wrong don't GL have a history of exam breaches ?
As many children gained an advantage afters seeing the GL 11 plus papers prior to sitting them and results for two schools have been rendered null and void and children have to resit the exams.The stress for the innocent children must be enormous but no hint of it in the article.
Am I wrong don't GL have a history of exam breaches ?
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Re: Nightmare 11 plus resits ?
The innocent children are lucky to have another chance with a paper that no student has already seen.
I know of other incidents where this has happened and been reported and the authorities have turned a blind eye.
I winder if we will ever hear the details? DG
I know of other incidents where this has happened and been reported and the authorities have turned a blind eye.
I winder if we will ever hear the details? DG
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Re: Nightmare 11 plus resits ?
No, they don't. There is however history of people doing stupid or illegal things with GL papers once they have been delivered to admission authorities or schools. That's quite a different matter.quasimodo wrote:Am I wrong don't GL have a history of exam breaches ?
It does however appear that in Devon the same papers are used on something like a 5-year cycle, so it's hardly surprising that some copies have escaped over that period of time.
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A rather jaundiced view, perhaps, but I bet the parents of the children who had already seen the paper are cursing the girl who first stuck a hand up to say so .
Is wholesale recycling the standard 'thing' with GL , or just a cheaper rate option they offer to schools?
Is wholesale recycling the standard 'thing' with GL , or just a cheaper rate option they offer to schools?
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It's certainly not standard - the Bucks GL papers were always completely new every year.ToadMum wrote:Is wholesale recycling the standard 'thing' with GL , or just a cheaper rate option they offer to schools?
I'm guessing therefore that it's a cost-cutting measure by the Devon grammars.
That worked then.
Not.
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QuiteSally-Anne wrote:It's certainly not standard - the Bucks GL papers were always completely new every year.ToadMum wrote:Is wholesale recycling the standard 'thing' with GL , or just a cheaper rate option they offer to schools?
I'm guessing therefore that it's a cost-cutting measure by the Devon grammars.
That worked then.
Not.
At least if there are only 400 candidates, they should have no difficulty in getting the papers turned around in (reasonably) good time for the CAF deadline.
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For the record, there are seven grammar schools in Devon, of which Plymouth High School for Girls and Devonport High School for Girls are the two affected by the 2016 GL Assessment resits. Devonport High School for Boys, which is said on this site to also use GL Assessment, has not as far as I am aware been reported as being afflicted by the same problem.Sally-Anne wrote:I'm guessing therefore that it's a cost-cutting measure by the Devon grammars.
The remaining four Devon grammar schools, Torquay Girls', Torquay Boys', Churston Ferrers (co-ed) and Colyton (co-ed) all use CEM not GL Assessment, and there has not as far as I am aware been any reported 2016 problem for these schools.
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Hi equilbro
Yes, sorry for the shorthand - I knew it was the girls' schools only.
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Yes, sorry for the shorthand - I knew it was the girls' schools only.
Either that or the boys didn't put their hands up!equilibro wrote:Devonport High School for Boys, which is said on this site to also use GL Assessment, has not as far as I am aware been reported as being afflicted by the same problem.
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My post edited S-A, for a "resit" on the apostrophes
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equilibro wrote:My post edited S-A, for a "resit" on the apostrophes
We've been round the block on that one, equilbro: http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... as#p281879" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's semi-colons that still challenge me ...
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