Standardised Scores
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Standardised Scores
I know I should probably hang my head in shame for being confused about this but how do you work out what "standardised scores" are - I see these referred to on this site. And does Herts weight the final score according to a child's birthday? My son will be exactly 11 for this year's 11+ in November. What kind of marks should he be getting in the maths & VR papers to stand a reasonable chance?
Thank you.
Thank you.
There are tables that convert raw scores to standardised scores by looking at a child's birthday. My primary school in Barnet indicated scores over 130 would indicate the child has a good chance of being offered a place at a selective school. We may be able to help further if we know which schools you will be applying to.
The standardization is done by NFER; there are some illustrations on their web site. For the SW Herts consortium, it's based on the 2300-odd children who do the test in a particular year, and the results are not released. Essentially they scale the actual marks obtained by the November-born children taking the test in that year so that they have an average of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, and similarly for each other month. There is a logic to it, but since no data is released it's hard to give numerical answers.Very confused wrote:Thanks - I'm interested in Watford Boys & Parmiters.
You also need to know that the standard will likely be higher this year, as these schools have been forced to lower the proportion accepted via the test from 35% to 25%.