Buckinghamshire (Bucks) Eleven Plus ExamsBuckinghamshire (Bucks) Eleven Plus Exams
The eleven plus exam in Buckinghamshire (Bucks) is taken early in Year 6, usually in the first two weeks of October. The results for the 2007 exam will be out on the 23rd November 2007.
The 11 Plus exam in Buckinghamshire comprises two multiple-choice verbal reasoning papers, taken about a week apart. Each Verbal Reasoning paper is 80 questions to be completed in 50 minutes. This works out at 37.5 seconds per question. However, all question types do not take exactly the same amount of time to complete, but as a rough guide you should be working to 30 seconds per question to allow 10 minutes extra for checking or to go back to any tricky questions.
Since the exam is a multiple-choice paper, no written answers are needed (good for anyone with poor handwriting) and workings will not be taken into account. So accuracy and speed are the deciding factors.
The exams are standardised and a final result is given for each paper as a mark out of 141. The pass mark is usually 121. Your child's scores are NOT averaged. Only their best score is used and the lower score is completely disregarded.
There tends to be one fairly 'easy' paper and one much harder paper. Although an easy paper may seem good, it means that many students can score well so once the scores are standardised, your child may not do as well as they predicted. Therefore, many students actually obtain their higher standardised score on the 'harder' paper.
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