How many of us remember the Entrance Exam? Looking, then walking, down a seemingly never-ending drive towards buildings which would swallow up the junior school which we attended. Not knowing which of the people looking after us were prefects and which were staff. Above all, not knowing the answers to so many questions in the papers. In my case, not having been taught decimals at junior school in Rochdale, and so finding many of the questions in the Arithmetic paper more than a bit puzzling.
Well, today is Entrance Exam day 2010, so we have been doing the tests which will decide the intake of September 2010, and the A level and IB results of 2017. We no longer have Part 1 and Part 2 days (written as Part I and Part II until, a few years ago, a parent told us it was cruel to advertise an 11-part exam). Now all the candidates come for written papers on one day and on another day for a general assessment based on putting them in groups in front of experienced teachers and seeing how well they do with newly taught material. This is our best endeavour to make our judgements on the basis of potential as well as acquired knowledge.
I've been marking a few papers this morning, and am impressed by the quality of the answers I've seen. A good sign for the future.
It's good to know that the Bursary Fund will support between 30 and 40 means-tested bursaries in the new entry. We may have even more deserving cases than that, and it will be very sad not to be able to help everyone who deserves it. This is why continuing the fundraising for bursaries is so important.
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