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End of year 7 levels survey
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:21 am
by Catherine
There has been a few topics about current year 7 grades
http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... php?t=2742
http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/forum/ ... 2670#32670
and I think that it would be interesting to compare the end of year 7 levels in any type of school.
It would be great to have year 6 SATs levels, year 7 levels in most subjects, your region and the type of school (comp, grammar, independent etc.) and any other comment that you find useful.
It is probably best to keep this anonymous, so for once 'guest' posts are welcome.
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:33 pm
by Guest
North London state primary
English 4
Maths 5
Science 5
North London comprehensive end of year 7
English 6C
Maths 6a
Science 6a
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:30 pm
by Guest55
Are these teacher assessments? Some school do the optional tests - I think it would be helpful to know how the levels were arrived at!!
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:32 pm
by Guest
North London state primary
English 4
Maths 5
Science 5
North London comprehensive end of year 7
English 6C
Maths 6a
Science 6a
English and Maths were QCA optional tests. Science was an internal exam
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:05 am
by Guest
Year 6 - SATs state primary
5-5-5 (no detail given but guessing English 5c - Science 5b - maths 5a)
Year 7 - Grammar - Teacher assessment
English 5a
Maths 7b
Science 6b
ICT 5a
Humanities 5a
Foreign language 4a
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:50 pm
by Guest
Hi
Year 6 - State Primary
Maths - 5 (A i believe)
Science - 5 (B i believe)
English - 5 (C i believe)
Year 7 - Bucks Grammar
Maths - 6C
English - 5B
Science - 6A
History - 6A
ICT - 5B
Languages (French 3A, Spanish 3C)
Hope this is useful to someone
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:00 pm
by Guest55
As a maths teacher the 7b looks over optimistic! I can't believe the topics for level 6 and level 7 have all been covered in one year!!! QCA optional tests put a 6a ceiling on Y7 levels
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:54 am
by Catherine
Are these teacher assessments? Some school do the optional tests - I think it would be helpful to know how the levels were arrived at!!
As a maths teacher the 7b looks over optimistic! I can't believe the topics for level 6 and level 7 have all been covered in one year!!! QCA optional tests put a 6a ceiling on Y7 levels
Hi Guest55,
I am sure that there is some variation in the way schools assess the levels, and some schools will tend to give higher grades than others.
But, as I understand it, the levels correspond to precisely defined sets of skills (lots of tick boxes
)
Surely the schools must be able to give a reasonably accurate assessment?
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:45 am
by Guest
Guest55 wrote:As a maths teacher the 7b looks over optimistic! I
can't believe the topics for level 6 and level 7 have all been covered
in one year!!! QCA optional tests put a 6a ceiling on Y7 levels
It is the teacher assessment, but I have got some tests that she did this year in front of me, and they are SATs past test papers.
They started with KS3 tier 4-6, and the latest ones are KS3 tier 5-7.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:17 pm
by Guest
Sats Key Stage 2 - Maths - 5a, Science 5b, English 5c
Year 7 End of year Exams
Maths - 7b
Biology 5a
Chemistry 6c
Physics 6b
English 5a
