eleven-plus

• “The combined population of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut is 11,300,000, quite a bit more than 260,000, and yet those 260,000 are about to make a decision that could have tremendous impact on the lives of those other eleven-plus million.”

  The Huffington Post: John Odum: For Good or Ill, Vermont's Election Will Impact Millions of Other New Englanders

• “I'm no sustainability expert, but in the eleven-plus years I've called Denver home, I've watched us undergo some significant paradigm shifts.”

  Nancy Wadsworth: The Greening Cow Town

• “I\'m no sustainability expert, but in the eleven-plus years I\'ve called Denver home, I\'ve watched us undergo some significant paradigm shifts.”

  Nancy Wadsworth: The Greening Cow Town

• “Tony flaig bignews said: "Simply put many middleclass parents, shell out good money, for one reason, to get their little brats coached into passing the eleven-plus”

  Fiona Millar on 'Segregational Selection'

• “Simply put many middleclass parents, shell out good money, for one reason, to get their little brats coached into passing the eleven-plus, either at tin pot schools or with extra tuition, thus cheating the system.”

  Fiona Millar on 'Segregational Selection'

• “I attended the local Catholic elementary (grade) school, and later, following a successful performance in the "eleven-plus" examination which I took rather earlier than most, transferred to the College of the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon”

  Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography

• “John had passed his eleven-plus to get in but, once there, he did no academic work and was put in the bottom stream.”

  John

• “There's so much rub­bish talked about the eleven-plus.”

  Disordered Minds

• “Mr. Law resents this greatly, as I'm one of only four boys to pass the eleven-plus examination in the whole class.”

  Broken Music, A Memoir

• “At the age of eleven, students had to take an exam known as the eleven-plus which would decide whether or not they went on to a grammar school or to a secondary modern school.”

  The Jigsaw Man

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