How do you know if your eleven plus child will enjoy the
benefits of an eleven plus education? You could try a little `Pre Eleven Plus
Quiz’. We know that the ambition of parents will play a large part in the pre-examination
preparation – but there are other factors as well. The eleven plus child has to
have some degree of ambition, common sense and motivation. Naturally sheer
ability also helps!
Ask your child to rate the following:
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Wanting to attend the same school as friends
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Enjoying Reading
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Interest in computer games
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An active sporting life
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T.V.
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Tidy Bedroom
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Asking about career opportunities
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Visiting museums
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Drawing
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Writing Poetry
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Constructing Lego models
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Looking after the sick
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Planting and gardening
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Visiting a cave
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Arguing
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There are many options that can be used in the` Pre Eleven
Plus Quiz’. Parents could devise their own with questions on sport, school,
interests and aptitudes.
The quiz could point to careers in veterinary sciences,
becoming a doctor or a nurse.
Other questions could cover business, finance and economics
There are all the engineering options to follow.
Languages, psychology, physical education and beauty therapy
could all play a part.
The one ingredient that may prove to rather useful is sheer
self-belief. If your child believes that passing the eleven plus is both
practical and possible then perhaps . . . . .
