NFER English Practice - Multiple Choice Papers
Moderators: Section Moderators, Forum Moderators
NFER English Practice - Multiple Choice Papers
Does anyone else find that the answers to the multiple choice English questions are not always clear cut ?
In many cases I have come across questions (in the Comprehension Section) where the answer could be 2 or 3 of the possible 5 choices available to choose from.
I guess this practice paper is just to test the child's comprenhesion skills rather than simulating the real exam - because I personally don't know of any schools who use multiple choice to test in English.
As a result, my DC's scores are low in English compared to the other NFER papers - Maths, Non Verbal & Verbal.
Has any one else found this ?
In many cases I have come across questions (in the Comprehension Section) where the answer could be 2 or 3 of the possible 5 choices available to choose from.
I guess this practice paper is just to test the child's comprenhesion skills rather than simulating the real exam - because I personally don't know of any schools who use multiple choice to test in English.
As a result, my DC's scores are low in English compared to the other NFER papers - Maths, Non Verbal & Verbal.
Has any one else found this ?
Yes.....there have been comments on the site mentioning this very topic.
Some practise papers can throw in a few 'similar' answers. No idea of whether this is to make the child think a bit more and therefore not get drawn into just seeing a possible answer and not checking the rest..... or it has just got thru a QA procedure by mistake.
My Ds didn't have to do them (not part of 11+) but there may be someone who has experience of them who can give you a more definate explanation.
Some practise papers can throw in a few 'similar' answers. No idea of whether this is to make the child think a bit more and therefore not get drawn into just seeing a possible answer and not checking the rest..... or it has just got thru a QA procedure by mistake.
My Ds didn't have to do them (not part of 11+) but there may be someone who has experience of them who can give you a more definate explanation.
Re: NFER English Practice - Multiple Choice Papers
Yes. The Nfer-Nelson English papers have more scope for criticism/argument than the others. I have found that sometimes their choice of word defintions, for example, is either wrong, IMHO, or requires a ludicrously fine distinction to be made between possible meanings.Feeley wrote:Does anyone else find that the answers to the multiple choice English questions are not always clear cut ?
This is to some extent unavoidable in English though.
Yes. My daughter regularly scored lower on English papers than VR or M. (We didn't have to do the NVR stuff, luckily - now there's a subject that open to intepretation ..)As a result, my DC's scores are low in English compared to the other NFER papers - Maths, Non Verbal & Verbal.
Has any one else found this ?