Sentences with phrase «selective school entrance exams»

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.

* Children who are «hot - housed» for selective school entrance exams can struggle once they get in, a headteachers» leader has warned.

Not exact matches

Or the low - income kids turn out to be somehow atypical — they go to a selective school with an entrance exam, or they're recent immigrants from Asia or Eastern Europe rather than black or Latino kids from families with long poverty histories.

These high schools are sometimes known as «exam schools» in reference to their selective admissions criteria, which can include entrance exams.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Several OPSB and BESE public schools have selective admissions based on entrance exams, language proficiency exams, prior grades, essays, and other criteria.

To remediate achievement gaps and prepare for the demands of the most selective schools in New England, each Scholar puts in hundreds of hours of extra school work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeschool work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeSchool Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeschool in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - grade year.

Many parents will pay for private tutors in an attempt to help their children pass entrance exams for selective schools, but does this give pupils from wealthy families an unfair advantage?

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

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.

Public charters do not operate like selective public schools, i.e.: magnet schools, and do not require aptitude or other screening exams for entrance.