http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7773974.stm
not really sure what it’s testing, but I could pass it. Too young to have done the real thing, of course.

passed!!

Yup and I passed it 3 years ago too when it was posted on here.

Yup and I passed it 3 years ago too when it was posted on here.

That’ll mean that a) some of the newer members like emsz can have a pop at it and b) you have an incredible memory for the most insignificant details on here. 😉

i passed it about 30 years ago. looks far too difficult to contemplate now…

15/15.

That’s what an expensive education gets you, perfection 🙂

blimey stoner, I got 11/15 (mostly the math ones wrong!)

14/15

Spent a good 2 minutes+ staring at question 15. 😕

I passed it when I was 11

The LEA had killed it the year before but our form teacher refused to accept the new system so he got us all to take it and issued certificates etc.
He was bonkers, in a time when bonkers was allowed

you have an incredible memory for the most insignificant details on here

Yup ask me something important and you’ve had it.

That’s what an expensive education gets you, perfection

Same here but my parents must have been smarter than yours ‘cos they let me go to state school and saved a fortune. 😉

What is the pass rate?

I can’t be arsed doing it over and over again to find the cut off. This is probably as a direct result of my Comprehensive School education.

8 x O Levels
1 x 16+
1 x CSE

Back in the day when they were hard 😉

Passed.

And to let the STW massive into a secret, I left school with only two C and above GCSEs.

15/15. Passed mine 34 years ago and was the last year to take it. The sequence numbers and insertions are the worst.

Two stupid mistakes. One meant I only got 14/15 the other meant I rushed a little too much thinking there were 15 sections rather than 15 little parts. Should have used a little of my 10 mins to check the whole paper. Confirms I’m not as clever as I like to think 🙁

I rushed a little too much thinking there were 15 sections rather than 15 little parts

Me too 😳

14/15 in 5 mins, stuck on last q.

Expelled from school in the early 80s and my parents had to pay to make the school enter me for any exams (allowed into school for exams only then escorted off premises). Passed 11 O-levels, 4 at A, B or C. Failed all my CSEs (no course work!).

I rushed a little too much thinking there were 15 sections rather than 15 little parts
Me too

I think that is a diagnostic in itself isn’t it?

I passed it when I took it 21 years ago. I still went to the local comp though despite getting a place at the grammar.

15/15 today

Nope.

14/15

Spent a good 2 minutes+ staring at question 15.

Ditto. Couldn’t see the obvious pattern for all my maths. Doh!

Clearly a trick question IMO 😳

14/15
Silly mistake on the other one… 😳

Interestingly, looking at their explanations of the correct answers, I got some of them right but with a different approach and reasoning.

15/15

woo …. hoo … not

For me Q15 was easy but Q9 and Q10 took a bit of time though…

15/15

That’s what a fairly run of the mill comprehensive school education gets you.

No calculators obviously as us oldies can do sums in our heads.

Burnt the most time on questions 7&8. Mostly getting to grips with the question, I guess once you leave school you don’t really encounter such abstract questions any more unless you work for secret spy network.

Burnt the most time on questions 7&8.

That one suited me. I just took a shortcut: two of the codes have 45 at the end, only two of the words have matching ends, therefore 45 = ST so the answers are the ones with 45 in the right places.

However I imagine 11 year old me would have spent a full 5 minutes painstakingly working out all the letter/number substitutions just because it was geeky and interesting 😀

11/15 = Pass apparently

To my mind they are more puzzles than questions. Things you either get, or not, like anagrams

14/15 while bursting for a pee, just clicked the wrong letter in the third question. Took way too much time on the numerical codes too.

Last one got me as well, what was the “pass” mark then? I was too intertested in finding out the actual asnwer to 15!

That one suited me. I just took a shortcut: two of the codes have 45 at the end, only two of the words have matching ends, therefore 45 = ST so the answers are the ones with 45 in the right places.

Good approach, if I had to do it again I’d do the same but that’s the thing with these sorts of tests once you know the best tactic it becomes a lot easier to do. I imagine in some ways it is easier for a kid taking the exam as they have been prepped for it.

Question 6: SHEN is a word so there are two possible answers. 😯

Passed but I could feel the dust being blown off bits of my brain that I haven’t used in years. I shall be less harsh on my kids I’d forgotten how annoying some things can be!

15/15
I remember taking the 11+, although it didn’t mean anything as the grammar school went independent in 1979.

Passed it when I was 11, which was errr….. 23 years ago.

Passed now with 14/15.

Question 15, damn you. I always fail to notice alternating sequences like that.

14/15 here.
The final alternating sequence got me too.

11/15 for me, one of which was Q15, I too have alternating sequence blindness.

I doubt I’d have “passed” in 1972 when I would have been 11.

What is the “pass” mark? 100%?

15/15, although it was surprisingly tricky

14/15 – last one got me also but as soon as I seen the answer I was kicking myself.

As per GrahamS as soon as I spotted the “ST” code it was easy.

From a scummy comprehensive school way down in the league tables…

What is the “pass” mark? 100%?

I got 11 and was told I’d passed, so no.