• The eleven-plus (11+) is a standardised examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education...
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  • Speedway and Stripes operate alongside 7-Eleven's namesake stores in several markets. 7-Eleven also operates A-Plus locations with the name licensed from...
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    Slurpee (category 7-Eleven)
    slushies sold by 7-Eleven and its subsidiaries A-Plus, Speedway, & Stripes Convenience Stores. The brand originated in 1966 when 7-Eleven made a licensing...
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    structural problems within the testing process that underpinned the eleven plus which meant it tended to result in secondary modern schools being overwhelmingly...
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    and 1960s, approximately a quarter of children were selected by the eleven plus exam for entry to grammar schools, either LEA-maintained grammar schools...
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  • Ireland) 1947 introduced a school system which included a government-run eleven-plus post-primary transfer test as an entrance exam for grammar schools; this...
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  • and his mother was a cleaner and factory worker. Maguire passed his eleven plus, and attended South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys from 1972...
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    Gordon Brown. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, in his youth Prescott failed the eleven-plus entrance exam for grammar school and worked as a ship's steward and trade...
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    loved playing football and did not answer any of the questions in the eleven-plus exam for entry to a grammar school, so that he could ensure he attended...
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    Evolution Soccer (eFootball PES), known as eFootball World Soccer Winning Eleven (eFootball WE) in Japan, is a series of association football simulation...
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    Big Gulp (category 7-Eleven)
    Big Gulp is a line of fountain drinks owned by 7-Eleven and used at its namesake stores as well as A-Plus, Speedway, and Stripes Convenience Stores. While...
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    the age of eleven, students sit an eleven plus examination to eliminate a student's secondary schooling direction. Success in the eleven plus exam places...
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    family moved to Bridgwater, Somerset, briefly in 1957. He passed his eleven plus exam in 1958, earning a place at High Wycombe Technical High School,...
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    From the age of eight, he was interested in acting. After failing his eleven-plus, he attended Ockendon Courts County Secondary School in South Ockendon...
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  • episode of that programme. Knutt was born in Sheffield. After passing the eleven-plus in 1957, he attended Abbeydale Grammar School in Sheffield. Still at...
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    system was in effect a bipartite system in which children who passed the eleven-plus examination were sent to grammar schools and those who failed the test...
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    killed neighbours. Wyman attended Oakfield Primary School, passing his eleven plus exam to gain entry to Beckenham and Penge County Grammar School from...
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    Grammar School) which he entered in September 1953 after passing the eleven-plus exam. He enjoyed badminton and diving at school, and became first clarinet...
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    of Bexley, UK. It takes boys and girls aged 11–18 who have passed the eleven plus exam. Founded in 1955, Bexley Grammar School was opened by Sir Edward...
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    replace grammar schools with comprehensive schools that did not use the eleven-plus for the selection of pupils. He later served as President of the Board...
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    and then Southall Grammar School from the age of 13 after passing the eleven plus exam. He formed The Blue Moon Skiffle Group as a teenager. He worked...
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    child, McClaren attended Nunthorpe Grammar School after passing his eleven-plus, preferring it over a closer school because of the emphasis which was...
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  • of the eleven plus was put back from 2004 to 2008. Opinion is divided on the wisdom of the decision. The Burns Report itself called the 11-plus system...
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  • school education became available to more and more children through the eleven plus examination. The school also had a change of name to Thornhill College...
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    strong Irish accent at that time, but eventually lost it. He passed the eleven-plus in 1954, to attend Varndean Grammar School. After sitting his A-levels...
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  • was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 7 November 1978. He passed his eleven-plus exam and attended Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys before moving...
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    colorectal cancer, and his mother was a breast cancer survivor. He passed the Eleven-Plus exam and started at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington. After the death...
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    areas children can enter a prestigious grammar school if they pass the eleven plus exam; there are also a number of isolated fully selective grammar schools...
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  • Aylesbury as Oxford and Milton Keynes, as admissions are determined by the eleven-plus. The current headmistress is Marieke Forster. The school is colloquially...
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  • spent a year in hospital as a child with diphtheria. He then passed the Eleven-plus examination and attended St Mary's College, Crosby, where he was awarded...
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