There are about four months to go to the 2013 eleven plus
examinations. A question that many parents will be asking could, possibly, be: “Will
my child pass the eleven plus?”
If a horse wins four races in a row then there is a good
chance that it will win a fifth.
If a coin comes up heads twenty times in a row then we would
feel that the coin probably has two heads rather than a head and a tail.
If an eleven plus child answers four questions correctly –
in a row – then is it likely that he or she will answer the fifth correctly?
If an able eleven plus child answers twenty questions correctly
in a row – it is very unlikely that he or she will have two heads – the star
could just be a good candidate.
Today the sun was shining at Camber Sands in Kent. What are the
chances of finding an eleven plus child working on an eleven plus paper on the beach?
We know that the chances of the same six numbers coming up
twice in a row in the National Lottery are about 1 in 200 000 000 000 000. This
is an easy number to remember – about two hundred million million! We all know
that the odds of winning the National Lottery are about fourteen million to
one. So is there any point in keeping the same numbers week after week?
Discuss this logic
with your eleven plus child and see if he or she wants to continue working on
eleven plus papers!
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