So the countdown begins!

[andy from embsay]

Thanks. Just trying to get a clear picture. We live out of catchment and know she's passed but were not given any details of her results ? The only children we know that got results were told they had failed and how much they missed the pass mark by.

That's how we know the maths pass mark - but score doesn't make any difference to allocations, does it? After catchment and siblings it's distance.

[samr]

Thanks for that. I know it's not ranked just nice for them to know how well they've done. 54% seems very low as a pass mark but I suppose that's their choice.
Not long now anyway.

[andy from embsay]

Thanks for that. I know it's not ranked just nice for them to know how well they've done. 54% seems very low as a pass mark but I suppose that's their choice.

I'm assuming the passmark(s) is/are set similarly to the NYCC exam - the top x% of in-catchment children. All our daughter's mates thought the maths was hard though - so perhaps it was a tricky paper.

I don't think they've said how many in-area girls passed, have they? Although from anecdotal evidence from people we know it seems to be quite a lot, so maybe they're taking a higher % than the old 28%, and reducing the standard to do so (which'd be a surprise given they're pretty obsessed with results etc).

[hermanmunster]

think it would very odd if they increased the in area number and reduced the standard - I get the feeling that there are quite a few who struggle anyway and it would just increase that further.

We are about to get experience of the sixth form - they are very keen to know where else the girls have applied (girls currently at the school and coming from outside) - anecdotally sounds like there will be quite a lot of turnover in pupils at sixth form