Could you pass the 11-plus? The test once given to 11 year olds

Re:Could you pass the 11-plus? The test once given to 11 yea... by ColinWright on Friday September 16, 2011 @05:22AM (#3003767)

I thought this would be of interest to the HN crowd, but clearly I was wrong - now ranked 449th and falling, despite upvotes. Never mind.

For reference I got 15/15 in under five minutes, but I've seen all these sorts of things before. What's clear is how important practice is for this type of test. Some questions require a trick, and if you haven't seen it you're in real trouble. If you have seen it then the question becomes a reasonable test of reasoning.

In this sense, perhaps, it's something like the trick interview questions people complain about. Perhaps we should assume people have now seen all the trick questions, and start to look at how they then reason beyond them.

And anyone who hasn't seen all the questions before clearly just hasn't done their homework.

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Re:Could you pass the 11-plus? The test once given to 11 yea... by samlittlewood on Friday September 16, 2011 @05:56AM (#3003844)

Well, I thought it was interesting - but it is on my mind at the moment.

Practice - lots of it. It is worth noting that the schools do not do any coaching for this - it is up to the parents to do it, or employ someone else.

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