How do you score in a test aimed at 10-11 yr olds?

got G90% but like Cosafina am also an ex EFL teacher. But even as a former teacher I see absolutely no point in most of this. Would like children to be able to spell but above all to enjoy reading and creative writing. I fear that these tests will turn most of them off English for life, oh and incidentally but very importantly, I suspect it will work heavily in favour of the kids from a more middle class background.

I pass easily the maths test , I did not try the English test ..... I am French so I have some excuses

"Primary school should be for embedding the main parts of speech, punctuation and use of capital letters, etc." I do agree Daphne - filling primary age children with totally unnecessary stuff is completely pointless and causes huge problems to the slower pupils, who are left feeling worthless for no good reason.

I'm genuinely puzzled as to why any of this will benefit the children who are expected to get a good pass level. Especially as the younger teachers in primary school won't have been taught any grammar when they were at school…...

Oh dear, 70% for English. I didn't know what some of the grammatical terms meant, in spite of studying languages at grammar school and now as an OAP at evening class and U3A.

25% for Maths - in 2000 I passed GCSE Maths at evening class with a B - the highest possible score for intermediate Maths!!!

cheat!

The shame of it.....only 50%! Can't believe it, since I am the one in the family who was always considered a whizz-kid at English.

I agree, but that is beyond the vast majority of primary school pupils. I taught modern languages for 30 years and I know that even secondary school pupils find it difficult to grasp some of the concepts.

Why does anybody learning English need to know the difference between a subordinating and a coordinating conjunction? It matters in German, because the main verb in the subordinate clause is sent to the end, but it really doesn't matter in English. There is no point in teaching the terminology until it's needed.

Primary school should be for embedding the main parts of speech, punctuation and use of capital letters, etc.

90%, but then I did spend 6 years teaching English as a foreign language

80% Am all in favour of grammar being taught; (SATs is another matter). Grammar aids powerful and precise writing as well as being really useful when learning another language. It also aids comprehension when going on to further studies where one often has to read really complex sentences and extract the meaning from them.
You wouldn't teach dressmaking without teaching the basic rules of how to sew seams, use a machine, make darts etc, and grammar is simply the foundation which enables us all to speak and write coherently and effectively.

What I do find quite funny is that nobody seems to remember the five page discussion we had when I posted the same test in January.
www.gransnet.com/forums/education/1222729-For-those-who-say-that-children-dont-learn-grammar-any-more

Modal verbs

learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/modal-verbs

Words like 'the', a(n), 'this', 'my/your, etc', 'any', etc.

70%. What the hell are " determiners "?

I got 70% well supported by my French background where we did heaps of grammar. Was flummoxed by modal verbs and determiners etc... Terminology ain't what it used to be!

I got 70% and I think the other three were things that have different names now.

I can only echo what jinglbellsfrocks has said!

60% and mostly by guesswork ... didn't teach English like that back in the day! It was one of my better subjects too, so maybe I should be ashamed?

I was a grammar freak at school 60+ years ago) and always came top in tests; I taught English for nearly 40 years (though mainly Lit) and I still only scored 80% in that test. I don't know where i went wrong! As for the maths - forget it!

Well they are now, daphnedill

DD, who sent me the link, says the kids take it all in their stride and was amused to hear one of her class, who was standing in the lunch queue, tell the dinner lady that 'Mild Madras Curry' was an oxymoron.

Gold star for him!!

Terms such as 'subordinating conjunction', 'relative clause', 'modal verb' and 'past progressive' (or any synonyms for them) have, in my experience, never been taught at primary level.

I am just too nice it seems that's my excuse anyway...

mashable.com/2016/04/15/grammar-obsessed-personality-study/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#5KIQahWW8PqI

I have never heard of many of terms used in this quiz!!!!

Obviously i can not support my grand children with any of their school work.

I always prided myself on using grammar and punctuation correctly when i was at work.

Many of my younger colleagues would laugh at me for being so particular until i explained how use of punctuation could change the context of sentence.

Now i feel i need to have English lessons again to keep up!!!!!

60% here - a lot of the terminology has changed since my day! That's my excuse, anyway!

Does seem excessive for that age - a complete turnaround from when grammar was a dirty word.

My dds (now mid-late 30s) went to very good schools, but weren't taught much in the way of grammar until they began to learn foreign languages - French, Latin and German were all compulsory for the first 2 or 3 years of senior school. But I remember having to explain to dd1 what an indirect object was, when it came up in German.

I would def. have to read up on this if ever helping Gd with her homework in a few years...

I only scored 30% . I didn't have a clue - I've got an O grade and Higher Grade English but it was never like this ? Woe is me .