Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school.
This life-blighting system has anguished parents, embarrassed teachers and worried doctors, who find the young exam takers suffering from...
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