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Call me ridiculous, but waiting for 11 plus results is not far off torture

Her child is waiting for exam results...and this mum is a nervous wreck

January 31, 2019 11:32
Why am I putting my child through this?
2 min read

They did warn me.

But then, they also warned me about childbirth and I thought “No, not me. I’ll be fine. It can’t be that bad.”

I was wrong then, and I have been proved wrong yet again. The current experience to which I refer, as you might already have guessed if you have a child in Year Six, is the 11+.

The 11+ is the exam sat in the last year of primary school by children applying to certain— usually private — secondary schools. Competition is fierce. This year, I heard of one school that had nearly 3,000 candidates for only 100 places.