"sit the test" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to take or participate in a test, exam, or assessment. Example: "I am feeling nervous about sitting the test tomorrow." "Before you can graduate, you must sit the final exam and pass with a certain score." "It's important to study and prepare well in order to sit the test confidently."
One of the key problems grammar schools have faced is getting children from hard-to-reach communities to even sit the test, let alone pass.
The cancellation lead to violent protests by the class 12 students, who were initially meant to sit the test on 21 March but a leak of that paper caused the exam to be delayed.
By 11, when children typically sit the test for grammar schools, only three quarters of the poorest children reach the government's expected level of attainment in education, compared to 97% of the wealthiest kids".
Facilitated by organised criminals, the "systematic cheating" typically involved invigilators supplying or reading out answers to whole rooms or gangs of imposters being allowed to step into the exam candidates' places to sit the test, Brokenshire said.
Of the 15,000 children registered to sit the test this year, many will end up in non-selective schools – otherwise known as secondary moderns – because there are fewer than 5,000 places available in Kent grammar schools in September 2017.
If they meet the official departmental criteria of living in the area or having siblings at the grammar, but are denied a place because their parents did not want them to sit the test, they will challenge that decision in the courts, the Guardian has been told.
Overall, about half of the 17,000 schools due to sit the tests are set to abandon them.
Jennifer Harper, from Wandsworth, spoke of her niece, who will be aged four years and two months when she is due to sit the tests.
Will my child's future be affected if they don't sit the tests and pupils at neighbouring schools do? A. No.
It said in a statement: "Pupils at the Maharishi Free School did not sit the tests this year.
Deborah Haylett's son Finn sat the test last year and she bitterly regrets he ever went for it.
