My mum failed her 11+ because her mother died a few months before, and she had to look after her younger brothers. She passed the 13+ though (birmingham, '60's), and got to grammar school that way. she's now a health visitor. if they had not had the 13+ she would probably not have been able to do that. At my dad's school…
My point OOK is that clearly I wasn't stupid, but to split us at 11 (no 13+ where I lived) meant that I couldn't compete as I was put in the secondary mod school. After I left school I then had to go to night school to get O levels (had to take CSE'S at my school) which I got top marks for easily - and then went on to get…
Great news, NT :o) Congratulations to the nipper. My eldest passed the 11+ comfortably after spending much of her junior school career either suspended from school or in the behaviour support system, which suggests that the tests really do measure potential rather than the effects of cramming.
Its wrong! It may have set you up for life OOK but some of us failed and then had to spend years clawing it back. Eventually got to a good uni and got a first but it still makes me feel ill to remember that I failed at 11. Well done to junior NT though! PP