"What if I don't pass ?" - what do you say ?

[Brum Mum]

The 'fail' word was completely banned here. I said to DS that if he was lucky enough to receive a place, then that was great, but that it was only one test on one day and didn't mean that he wasn't clever. The main point we pushed was that it just offered another choice.

We talked about the other schools available to him and I really praised his other main choice (rather too much as he then started saying that he would go there instead ).

[southbucks3]

Thanks for the reply guys. Last year at our school 80% of the year group passed for gram ear so hard act to follow especially with the new test !

That is a hard act to follow, how many does it usually get through?