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Does anyone know how many children sat the CSSE exam this year please?
We are hoping for a place at Colchester CHSG and trying to gauge how many others there are competing for the 192 places!

ELLSBELLS wrote:Does anyone know how many children sat the CSSE exam this year please?
We are hoping for a place at Colchester CHSG and trying to gauge how many others there are competing for the 192 places!

If it was over 6000 last year, you can bet the number will be around the same. A fair few will have done it for the journey and hoping to get into top set in a local comprehensive and a fair amount will be taking exams for a number of London schools including QE and HB. It's difficult to assess just how many are realistic about getting place

I see n=5645 in the standardisation sheet, guessing that to be the number of candidates

Thank you

Hi, the approx figure that you quote...does this include both boys and girls who are applying for a number of different CSSE schools across Essex? Is the CSSE exam say at CCHSG exactly the same as the exam sat at Southend or Chelmsford? I know this might be a pretty obvious question but for own sanity I just needed to double check! TIA

EssexMum2019 wrote:Hi, the approx figure that you quote...does this include both boys and girls who are applying for a number of different CSSE schools across Essex? Is the CSSE exam say at CCHSG exactly the same as the exam sat at Southend or Chelmsford? I know this might be a pretty obvious question but for own sanity I just needed to double check! TIA

Yes, it's an obvious question . It's all the same exam.

Thanks toadmum. Just trying to settle a debate with my husband re numbers of applicants!!

ToadMum wrote:

EssexMum2019 wrote:Hi, the approx figure that you quote...does this include both boys and girls who are applying for a number of different CSSE schools across Essex? Is the CSSE exam say at CCHSG exactly the same as the exam sat at Southend or Chelmsford? I know this might be a pretty obvious question but for own sanity I just needed to double check! TIA

Yes, it's an obvious question . It's all the same exam.

RedDevil66 wrote:

ELLSBELLS wrote:Does anyone know how many children sat the CSSE exam this year please?
We are hoping for a place at Colchester CHSG and trying to gauge how many others there are competing for the 192 places!

If it was over 6000 last year, you can bet the number will be around the same. A fair few will have done it for the journey and hoping to get into top set in a local comprehensive and a fair amount will be taking exams for a number of London schools including QE and HB. It's difficult to assess just how many are realistic about getting place

The number for boys and girls combined was 5465 (there is no breakdown sadly) Last year combined total was 5646.

rm62 wrote:

RedDevil66 wrote:

ELLSBELLS wrote:Does anyone know how many children sat the CSSE exam this year please?
We are hoping for a place at Colchester CHSG and trying to gauge how many others there are competing for the 192 places!

If it was over 6000 last year, you can bet the number will be around the same. A fair few will have done it for the journey and hoping to get into top set in a local comprehensive and a fair amount will be taking exams for a number of London schools including QE and HB. It's difficult to assess just how many are realistic about getting place

The number for boys and girls combined was 5465 (there is no breakdown sadly) Last year combined total was 5646.

About 2914 boys took the exam, looking at theraw scores table