The eleven plus - getting into grammar school?

[TeaNoSugar]

okgo said:

Wait till he finds out that every fker gets straight A's now anyway, and you need a lot more than just grades to get into one of the top Uni's

That said, such schools have a good history of managing that. But a mate of mines kid needed AAB to get into sodding Loughborough I heard the other month. Madness.

Why madness? I’m not surprised they need good grades; Loughborough is ranked no.5 in the UK. It’s been one of the top universities since I was a student 25 years ago (at Manchester I should add, not Loughborough).

[xeny]

TeaNoSugar said:

Why madness? I’m not surprised they need good grades;

A or A* made up 44% of the grades awarded this year. AAB is actually not that impressive in that context :-(

[mikey_b]

aparna said:

At some point, you have to wonder whether all this time and energy and money spent on private tuition, catchment area housing etc, might better redirected, perhaps towards private education fees? Or maybe a well stocked library or music room, that is of benefit for many years.

Ermmm…. A tutor is maybe £25-50 a week depending on area, tutor, etc. So probably less than £2500 in total. Private education costs that every couple of months for several years, so a vast difference in cost. And a well stocked library or music room, whilst lovely ideas, require a fair amount of free space to be useful or workable - so again not really within the means of many people.

[okgo]

TeaNoSugar said:

Why madness? I’m not surprised they need good grades; Loughborough is ranked no.5 in the UK. It’s been one of the top universities since I was a student 25 years ago (at Manchester I should add, not Loughborough).

I just assumed it was a sports uni tbh.

[spreadsheet monkey]

okgo said:

I just assumed (Loughborough) was a sports uni tbh.

Oof!