[MK Chris]

Here.

Post your score. The timer doesn't work (well, it does, but it only times for a few seconds then tells you you're out of time unless they have fixed it by now - either don't click 'start' or choose to continue when it tells you you're out of time.)

I got 14, but it took me somewhat longer than 10 minutes in fairness.

[Andy B]

I got 14, only the last one threw me but I did it in 8 minutes.....a lesson to be learned in cheking one's answers I think.

[CassieJackson]

It said I ran out of time when I clicked Start, so I have no idea how long it took. I got 15, but the last one was purely a lucky guess.

[ladbroke]

14 with 1:33 left on the clock. The numerical codes are the ones I found the most hard.

[Munki Bhoy]

What the hell is the 11 plus?

[foot-loose]

Some engerlish shit I reckon.

We should invent numbers up here.

[MK Chris]

It's mainly not used now, it used to be a standard thing for going to secondary school I think. Some still have it, evidently - I didn't take it.

[Munki Bhoy]

If it refers to age, I'd guess it's a test you need to pass to get into high school. But then I'd wonder what they did with the failures.

I'm fairly sure they used to do something like that up here. They'd test you at a certain age and then split you up on ability. Idea being that the smart ones would get taught important stuff and the dummies could eat playdough and not disrupt the smart ones doing it.

Wish they'd kept it, I hated the dummies interfering with my learning.

Yeah, I was a 'swot' at school. I always argued that point. I never went home and studied, I just learned it at school and it would stick quickly. I nearly failed second year at uni because I never learned how to study actually.

[foot-loose]

If it refers to age, I'd guess it's a test you need to pass to get into high school. But then I'd wonder what they did with the failures.

Cooked and ate them.

[S4B]

We still have a Grammar School system here. My boys took it this time last year, one of them got into the Grammar School the other didn't. It really just shows if your mind works in the right way to pass and, therefore, be taught in a specific way rather than separate the brainy kids from the thick ones. Both of them are now top streamed for all subjects just in different schools - the one that didn't pass is now in a village secondary school rather than the town's comprehensive. It has worked out for my boys but I do still have reservations about deciding whether your child is better suited to "academic" or a "practical" subjects at such an early age.

[Boboff]

ooops 10 in 8 minutes !

[Munki Bhoy]

It's a test taken in year 6 (so ages 10-11) to decide whether the child can go to a grammar school or a foundation school, the grammar being the better of the two.

You're 10-11 in year 6? We're in Primary 7 by then. I thought everyone in the UK went to school when they were 4-5?

I started when I was 4, was at high school at 11, left when I was 16 (ran out of years) and graduated Uni before I turned 21.

Yeah, I'm just showing off now.

[MK Chris]

First year is reception (or whatever it's called) at 4-5, then year one is 5-6 and so on.

[Andy B]

It's all bloody americanised anyway. I left school in the fifth year then I went on to sixth form college.