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Hi Sally Anne,
I see you're awake. As usual thanks for the support. How do you know if the Year 4 & 5 VRT are standardized?
Thanks,
NM
I see you're awake. As usual thanks for the support. How do you know if the Year 4 & 5 VRT are standardized?
Thanks,
NM
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Hi NM
Obviously I wasn't awake, and haven't been for several days! Sorry I missed this.
(NM has now sent me a PM to wake me up on this post!)
My recollection is that Year 4 & 5 NFER VRT tests are standardised, but against a national base, rather than the higher standard of just Bucks. The real 11+ results are standardised against the Bucks cohort, so a higher score is needed to pass.
Patricia/Etienne - please correct me if I am wrong on this.
Sally-Anne
Obviously I wasn't awake, and haven't been for several days! Sorry I missed this.
(NM has now sent me a PM to wake me up on this post!)
My recollection is that Year 4 & 5 NFER VRT tests are standardised, but against a national base, rather than the higher standard of just Bucks. The real 11+ results are standardised against the Bucks cohort, so a higher score is needed to pass.
Patricia/Etienne - please correct me if I am wrong on this.
Sally-Anne
Yes be careful we were wrong footed at the start of our appeal when the LEA representative, in response to a question from one of the panel members, explained that the two were not comparable. Until that point we thought that a score of over 121 on the Year 5 test showed that our child was capable of achieving a pass on the 11+, but apparently that's not the case.