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Assess The View That The Comprehensive System, By Replacing The Tripartite System, Provided Greater Equality Of Opportunity For All Pupils.
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Assess The View That The Comprehensive System, By Replacing The Tripartite System, Provided Greater Equality Of Opportunity For All Pupils. The comprehensive system was brought in after criticisms of the Tripartite system were made. In this essay I am going to discuss the criticisms that were made about the Tripartite system and how the Comprehensive system attempted to overcome these problems. I will also outline the problems that the Comprehensive system encountered. The 11-plus was unreliable in saying how clever a pupil was at the early age of 11. It became increasingly clear that a young person's educational future could not be predicted by an IQ test at 11. When secondary modern pupils were finally allowed to take GCE O levels, some were getting better results than many grammar school pupils. In practice, many intelligent students failed the 11-plus and many less intelligent passed. One of the main reasons for this was that...
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