General paper note.
Maths was probably the most feared of all GCE ‘O’ Levels. It is hard to believe looking at this example now how it could have created any level of dread!
If you are slightly confused by the lack of Calculus – there were two Joint Matriculation Syllabuses, ‘A’ and ‘B’. The latter, shown here, was for Secondary Modern schools that allowed GCE examination. Grammar Schools took Syllabus ‘A’ which also included differentiation, integration, curve-fitting and maxima/minima (dy/dx = 0).
The second paper was taken the following day.
Latin was only taken by the ‘A’ Stream so, as a ‘B’ Stream pupil, I managed to escape this particular delight.
So, would you pass for the Grammar School now ?!
Here is the Maths entry test, there are also two more 11+ papers to complete; ‘Verbal Reasoning’ and ‘Non-verbal Reasoning’. Good luck – but remember, they were designed to assess eleven year olds!!
There was no English test as such; the second of the three papers was ‘Verbal Reasoning’.
The final paper of the three was ‘Non-verbal Reasoning‘. This was my favourite because, to this day, I love puzzles and these felt little more than that. I can remember my first priority being to try to leave the class first, which seemed far more important than using any remaining time to check my answers, but I still managed to scrape through somehow.
