eleven-plus

British  

noun

1. (esp formerly) an examination, taken by children aged 11 or 12, that determines the type of secondary education a child will be given

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Example Sentences

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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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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To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios on the kids to make them cram harder.

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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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