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"Tutoring, mentoring and drilling young children to help them pass the controversial 11-plus exam to access selective schools may be making kids less intelligent and the test should be scrapped, experts have suggested. For many parents, coughing up to pay for tutoring to pass the exam feels like a grim necessity, enabling their child to access the best education available."
The Independent requests donations to fund on-the-ground reporting across issues such as reproductive rights, climate change and Big Tech, prioritising unrestricted access by refusing paywalls and relying on supporters to finance journalism. The 11-plus exam has spurred a large private tutoring industry that focuses on verbal and nonverbal reasoning, skills not widely taught in state primaries. The emphasis on drilling past papers has made preparation costly and routine, converting preparation into rote exam practice and risking the development of exam-focused behaviours rather than broader learning. Experts suggest the test should be scrapped due to these harms.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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