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k9ruby

15

You know the CAT tests you do in Y7- is it possible to find out the results? :confused:

Reply 1

yawn

17

k9ruby

You know the CAT tests you do in Y7- is it possible to find out the results? :confused:

Ask your head of year if you can be told them. Invariably you won't, because the school might feel it could affect your attitude to learning.

You could always buy cognitive reasoning test papers and do timed tests yourself to get an indication.

Try NFER's website.

OP

Thanks.

i'd ask your school
we were automatically told them, and it made me work harder since i knew i could do better than in was predicted!

Reply 4

Hippysnake

19

Tsk, I came top in my year.

Reply 5

AisAis

13

I wish my teachers would stop telling us! 'You only got 113 so you're only going to get a B in this subject, and I'm going to ignore your A-grade mock. Only this boy who does no work is worthy of my help because his mighty 127 means I must give him my undivided attention.'

Like in year ten I got an E in ICT because I hadn't done any coursework. My teacher told me she was happy with it because my CAT dictated I'd gain a C grade, and her laptop also told her we should improve two grades between year ten and the final result. I was on track, apparently. :rolleyes:

Reply 6

afua12

15

I know that I really messed them up... I was more interested in finishing quickly than actually reading the questions lool don't ask why - I don't have a clue!

I know that they don't make a difference education wise (uni applications etc.) but I'm one of those people who just cannot accept the fact that I could have odne better in something!

Oh, btw - do our teachers look / are shown them either at the beginning of our course or whenever? I just know that mine must be really low, so will it create a bad first impression or whatever? My school is part of a consortium, so I will going to two other shcools for sixth form, will these teachers who know nothing about me look at my scores and judge me on them? :s-smilie:

Reply 7

afua12

15

AisAis

I wish my teachers would stop telling us! 'You only got 113 so you're only going to get a B in this subject, and I'm going to ignore your A-grade mock. Only this boy who does no work is worthy of my help because his mighty 127 means I must give him my undivided attention.'

Like in year ten I got an E in ICT because I hadn't done any coursework. My teacher told me she was happy with it because my CAT dictated I'd gain a C grade, and her laptop also told her we should improve two grades between year ten and the final result. I was on track, apparently. :rolleyes:

:O I'm actually really suprised to hear that... that's terrible! And also imo completely immoral... a teachers job is to teach dam it lol, they should never "give up" on people or treat them differently because of what a test tells them!

Reply 8

coolguy456

Can't even rember doing mine but we were never told? It reminds me of that 'Yellis' test? did anyone else do that? It amazes me that teachers still mentioned them to some of you people even though you took them in yr7. People develop a lot during that time when they took the test to when they do SAT's GCSE's etc

Reply 9

AisAis

13

:O I'm actually really suprised to hear that... that's terrible! And also imo completely immoral... a teachers job is to teach dam it lol, they should never "give up" on people or treat them differently because of what a test tells them!

Yeah I know. She was my biology teacher, and after being about 3 marks off an A* in year ten, I ended up with a B, just like she wanted.

So stupid. I go from a C to a B to an A in physics, from a D to a C to an A in chemistry, and a high A to a low A to a B in biology.

Has anyone heard about that teacher in the US who treated all the students with blue eyes like they were more intellegent, and by the end of the year all the blue-eyed students did better than all the brown-eyed ones, even though their previous performance data was nothing like that?

I know I could have worked myself, but it I'm so annoyed she let me become so demotivated lol.

/rant.

Reply 10

vector

15

Our school had our year 7 CAT test results on file until we finished year 11.

Reply 11

StarMeKitten

Our school had them and used them to determine who to ignore.

Our marks were broken down into like 3 or 4 parts though.

I'd got top marks in all but one of them, which seemed to affect DT, as all y other teachers were like "A*!" and my DT teacher was like, "your test showed you're gonna get a C, maybe a B if you're lucky.

I then took both Art and Textiles at GCSE and got A's in both. Hah.

You can get your results from the school, they, by law, have to show you everything they have on file about you if you ask for it.

Reply 12

afua12

15

StarMeKitten

You can get your results from the school, they, by law, have to show you everything they have on file about you if you ask for it.

...I never knew this... :s-smilie:

Reply 13

vector

15

You can get your results from the school, they, by law, have to show you everything they have on file about you if you ask for it.

Surely that's not true?

Reply 14

coolguy456

vector

Surely that's not true?

Yep its true, under the data protection act 1998 you can request any information held about yourself, although you may have to pay a slight fee.

Reply 15

vector

15

Wow. I thought the personal files were confidential and you weren't allowed to see your own...

Reply 16

-G-a-v-

16

We were shown our results when at our 'target-setting' meeting in year 7. According to mine I could've got an A* in GCSE Art if I wanted to. That really made me laugh, since it was apparently the only A* I was capable of getting although I was above average in all 3 sections of the test. I also suck at art really, really, really badly.

We did a similar test in year 8 (MidYis I think it was called) and in year 10, maybe even year 11 as well (Yellis) and one of these tests, I can't remember which one, came back that I was mentally gifted and top of the year or something.

These sort of tests really just measure intelligence rather than academic ability/potential, and so often predictions by teachers who know you turn out to be wrong, so I'm not sure how valid it is to predict GCSE grades on what might as well just be an IQ test.

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