Sentences with phrase «grammar school entrance exams»

Over a third (38 %) had a tutor to help them do well in a specific GCSE exam while nearly a fifth (18 %) received tutoring for a grammar school entrance exam.

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ACT officials say the insights on grammar and usage will help them as they reshape their college - entrance exam to add an optional, 30 - minute writing test sometime during the 2004 - 05 school year.

67 per cent of respondents said they would send their child to a grammar school if they had passed an entrance exam, with just 10 per cent saying they would not.

Between the ages of five and 16, children will sit four rounds of compulsory exams, not including the 11 + and Common Entrance exams that those applying for grammar or private schools will take.

It can also be used for exam preparation for example for end of Key Stage 2 writing, entrance exams to Grammar or Independent schools etc..

But without formal instruction in reading or writing English, Callahan fears that they have no way of developing good grammar or a broad vocabulary, or preparing for middle school or college entrance exams.

Many are «over-tutored» for the grammar school 11 - plus or private school Common Entrance exams at 13 and then can not keep up with more talented classmates later.

who do well in an entrance exam (for selective schools, for example grammar schools or stage schools)

As children prepare for the second year of entrance exams for grammar schools, a NI children's commissioner survey has revealed the views of pupils.

GL Assessment, which delivered the 11 - plus test for all Buckinghamshire grammar schools before 2013, will replace the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) in providing selective school entrance exams for the area from 2018.

Fiona Millar, from the group Comprehensive Future, which campaigns against selective education, said Sir Michael was right to highlight the divide, arguing that poorer pupils struggle to pass the entrance exam for grammar schools.