Sunday 8 February 2009

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country



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/////////WKI=In the United Kingdom, the 11-plus or Eleven plus is an examination administered to some students in their last year of primary education. The name derives from the student age group: 11-12 years. The Eleven Plus examination was once used throughout the UK but is now only used in a number of counties and boroughs in England, and, more widely, in Northern Ireland. The Transfer Test is especially associated with the Tripartite System which was in use for thirty-two years, from 1944 to 1976.
The Transfer Test examination tests a student's ability to solve problems using verbal reasoning, maths and non-verbal reasoning. Introduced in 1944, the examination was used to determine which type of school the student should attend after primary education: a grammar school, a secondary modern school, or a technical school. The base of the Tripartite System was the idea that for this purpose skills were more important than financial resources: different skills required different schooling.


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In Buckinghamshire children sit just two verbal reasoning papers



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