http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7773974.stm

Don't read the questions first - just hit the timer button and go ...

I did very badly really (8/15) - just didn't understand the question being asked of me on one of them

Going to ask my 10-nearly-11 year old to try this later

I already passed that one, 27 years ago...


14 out of 15 this time, but I dont recall eating lunch while doing it last time around...

I never took it - but I'm not sure why but I believe it was down to changes in structures. Our local high schools (grammer) were single sex until the year before I joined - so I was in the second year of one of those new fangled 'comprehensive' thingies. I probably would not have passed back then either. We had 'streaming' at school - 5 levels I think, and I was in the second group so did O levels, not CSE's - but would not have been grammer school material I believe. Seems not much has changed though. I still freak out at numbers and my brain shuts down when presented with them

I got 12/15...Not sure what the pass mark would have been??!

Thanks Anne - you've given me a headache!!
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You must be the same age as me. I stayed at primary school for an extra year and then went to comprehensive, as part of the first batch. I would have otherwise gone to grammar school. Oddly enough, we ended up with the teachers and curriculum we'd have got at the grammar school.

Timer wasn't working for me but 13/15.

12/15 and I missed out one section completely through lack of patience.

I was initially fooled by what I thought was bad phrasing on the first question. I was trying to make two new words from the second word rather than a new one from each.

12/15 - no idea how as I am useless at maths.

Am well impressed I am as intelligent as the Gov. deem an 11 year old should be

Ok - definitely feeling the Dunce of the class at the mo

Nope, 8/15 here too. Couldn't do maths, just guessed. Still no idea why even when given the answers to the number ones!

And I won an academic scholarship, haha

Sorry Ann, got 12 also, but did sort of rush it as OH started talking to me half way through

None of it was really "math" or "english" if you ask me, it was all about pattern recognition.

I seem to recall the proper 11+ had a lot more facets to it than the abridged BBC version, as psychologists will tell you that intelligence testing (which is what it really was) is a very tricky business to get right without other factors influencing the results...and that is probably ultimately what killed it...that and the number of MPs who probably failed it and never got that new bike they had been promised if they passed.

14/15 for me, but I love puzzles and logic things like that.

This is COMPLETELY irrelevent but I have only just noticed what it says at the bottom of Iain's posts about I AM Canadiain. DOH.

I always look at it but never spotted it before...I do believe I am now wearing the Dunce Hat

You might actually be top of the class as no one else has ever commented