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school" system for certain groups of school in which only 25 per cent

of the places remaining after the discretionary places have been allocated

are reserved for eligible feeder pupils).

12.

The Working Party on the Replacement of the Secondary School

Entrance Examination recommended in November 1975 that in future, apart

from discretionary places, Form 1 places should be allocated in such a

manner that 50 per cent are filled through feeder allocation and 50 per

cent through general allocation; that all the places in any additional

Form 1 classes resulting from flotation (or extended day - an arrangement

which was never introduced) should be filled through general allocation;

that no further applications to join the nominated school system should

be entertained; and that the government nominated school system should

be discontinued. With the exception of the recommendation to discontinue

the government nominated school system the Working Party's recommendations

were accepted and schools accordingly notified that the changes would

take effect from the summer of 1983, subject to a review in 1980. This

review has now been undertaken and the resulting recommendations are

summarised later in this chapter. After the internal assessments of

all the primary schools in the same school net have been scaled by the

AAT an order of merit for the whole school net is obtained and this is

then divided into the five equal bands already mentioned.

Pupils in Band 1

are given priority of allocation over those in Band 2, Band 2 over Band 3,

and so on. Allocation is based on parental choice. Pupils are allocated

band by band, beginning with Band 1. Within each band all first choices

are allocated first, then second and third choices, and so on. The pupil's

position within the band is ignored and if at any stage of the allocation

procedure it is found that the places in a particular secondary school

are oversubscribed then the places are filled with pupils chosen randomly

by computer. This allocation procedure continues until all pupils in the

net are allocated. As already mentioned, in some schools a very high

proportion of such places are normally filled by feeder or nominated