PerpetualStudent wrote:
Hi Weakandwobbly,
I see it’s a couple of weeks since you posted so you may have already resolved this issue.
In your situation I think I would drop an email to the teacher/head teacher explaining what happened and querying if there is anything to be done. I expect the answer is ‘no don’t worry about it’ but you have a record now that the result may not be representative.
In truth it may not matter at all. Your daughter may have had a better than average result anyway, and 11+ could go swimmingly. It’s always good to learn the importance of keeping track of your answers on the answer sheet well before the 11+.
One way the discrepancy in CAT score might be relevant is if it produces a spiky profile. For example a high NVR score but low VR might suggest to a teacher that there was some kind of SEN involvement. If a greater than 10 point difference was actually the result of an answer sheet mistake then the teacher would probably want to know.
HTH
PS
Thanks! This is a really helpful reply. I did in fact speak with the teacher and email so that they have a record of what happened. As you say, this is a useful lesson in itself for when it comes to the 11+. Your comments ring very true about spiky profiles. Shortly afterwards, my DD did a mock 11+ (we're in Bucks, so one English/VR and one Maths/NVR paper) and she got exactly (to one decimal place) the same score on the 2 papers, so no worries there. My DS, who did the 11+ last year, had a spiky profile of a storming NVR score, but he was weak on English. He was found to have ASD and didn't get a qualifying score in the real 11+.
Thanks again for reassuring me that I have done the right thing! Best wishes PS