Requesting a review
If your child is not assessed as suitable for grammar school in the Medway Test and you do not think the results reflect your child’s ability, you can request a review of their school work. This is not a re-marking of their test.
You should speak to your child's school to find out if they feel a review is right for your child.
Review request dates
Review requests must be submitted by 10am Monday 10 October 2022.
Reviews will take place on Thursday 13 October 2022.
Request a review of your child's school work
Once you have requested a review
Once you have requested a review we'll ask your child’s school to provide work in:
- writing (including technical skills and creativity)
- mathematics (including problem solving and reasoning)
- science (including investigation)
- humanities/topic/curricular work (illustrating writing and applying learning)
- reading (including comprehension, observational notes, reading journals, cross curricular reading and response to text).
A panel will review the work to decide if it shows your child is suitable for a grammar school, even if the Medway Test score did not.
Each year the review process can find up to 2% of the year group to be suitable for a grammar school.
If your child is educated at home
You need to submit R2.1 EHE form from School Services with details of your child's attainment grades, where available.
You will need to submit a selection of your child's work showing independent learning in:
- writing (including technical skills and creativity)
- mathematics (including problem solving and reasoning)
- science (including investigation)
- topic (humanities) (illustrating writing and applying learning)
- reading (including comprehension exercises, reading journals and response to text).
Work can be accepted in paper form such as loose sheets, workbooks, and exercise books. Any work produced electronically must be printed with the date it was produced.
The work submitted must be produced by your child and can include autonomous and self-directed learning approaches.
Only work your child has produced from 1 April to the closing date of the work request will be accepted.
Review decision
Review decisions will be sent by letter by Friday 21 October 2022.
The review decision date is before the closing date for school applications on Monday 29 October 2022.
If your child is assessed as suitable for a grammar school place through the review process, they can be considered for places at Medway grammar schools if you name them on your application form.
If you're not happy with the review decision
If your child is not assessed as suitable for a grammar school after the review process, you can still name grammar schools on your application form. On national offer day, you will be given the right to appeal for a place at any school you name on your application. This appeal is known as an assessment appeal.
After you submit your application, you’ll need to wait until school places are offered on the 1 March 2023 before you can submit your admission appeal requests.