eleven-plus
Britishnoun
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Last year 150 boys�90% of whom had come here as eleven-plus failures�were able to take the ordinary GCE exam.
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Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities.
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Many parents buy their way out of eleven-plus failure by spending up to one-third of their incomes on expensive private schools.
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Even more vexing is that unexpected injustice, the dreaded "eleven-plus" exam, which was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into secondary schools geared to their abilities.
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What anguishes middle-class Britain is the fate of eleven-plus "failures"�the 75% of eleven-year-olds who are sent to "secondary modern" schools set up by the 1944 act.
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