Year 9 SATs

[Axel]

Do SATs determine anything except what set you are going to be in next year?

[Barmi]

Do SATs determine anything except what set you are going to be in next year?

They are significant to the school as they form part of the Fisher Family Trust predictions for GCSE, and the school will get scrutinised on the outcome of the GCSE results versus the predicted results from the SATs (something called added value).

[Axel]

That Fisher Family Trust thing says I'm going to get an A in English GCSE but I probably won't... my coursework is an A but in exams I get B/C.

[Zak]

They mean nothing, just to make the school look good

[Firehorse]

They mean nothing, just to make the school look good

Totally right man! Before our first test the head came up to me in particular and said to me that my level mattered to him as much as it did to me :eusa_wall

Sometimes being clever ain't so good.

[L?KE]

Totally right man! Before our first test the head came up to me in particular and said to me that my level mattered to him as much as it did to me :eusa_wall

Sometimes being clever ain't so good.

How can you say that, of course it's good - I love it

And that shouln't worry you or anything, cos it means he knows you'll do well and if you do somehow mess up it's not like he's going to kill you.