Do we need to move closer to Tonbridge?
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:00 pm
We live north of Sevenoaks (Kemsing) and have 3 kids, the oldest being a boy in Year 4. He is bright and we'd like to try for a grammar school place for him at Judd (since he loves music) or Skinners or TW. I see that Judd and Skinners select on the basis of pass mark until they have two candidates with the same mark, in which case they choose the geographically closer.
I don't want to make my son's chances of getting in too low, so I wondered how significant geography really is in their selection. Do they end up filling almost all the places on the basis of kids with very high scores and just have to apply the geography criteria for the last 10% of candidates. Or do so many score maximum marks that geographic location is used to select 90% or more of the candidates?
Given that Sevenoaks (and of course Tonbridge and T.Wells) are closer to Judd and Skinners than we are up here on the edge of the downs, I don't want to set my son an impossible task...
Or have I completely misunderstood the system???
I don't want to make my son's chances of getting in too low, so I wondered how significant geography really is in their selection. Do they end up filling almost all the places on the basis of kids with very high scores and just have to apply the geography criteria for the last 10% of candidates. Or do so many score maximum marks that geographic location is used to select 90% or more of the candidates?
Given that Sevenoaks (and of course Tonbridge and T.Wells) are closer to Judd and Skinners than we are up here on the edge of the downs, I don't want to set my son an impossible task...
Or have I completely misunderstood the system???