All prospective 11+ students are invited to sit a free assessment. We offer a Year 4 Foundation 11+ course and a Year 5 11+ Course. You can find out more about each of these offerings by clicking the titles below.
The Slough Consortium, Kendrick School and The Buckinghamshire Grammar schools all use GL assessment as their test provider. The format, contents and standard of difficulty of these tests are all the same. The GL Assessment test format is explained below:
This involves comprehension, spelling and grammar questions. There are 21 common VR question types that are generally tested by GL. The vast majority of these question types can be solved using a logical technique. Some of the common question styles are listed below:
The maths usually comes in the form of short, word problems.
This section requires the use of logical reasoning to solve questions involving pictures and shapes. Some of the common question styles include:
The Slough Consortium consists of four schools: Langley Grammar School, Upton Court Grammar School, St. Bernards Catholic Grammar School and Herschel Grammar School. Students wishing to apply to any of the four schools must register with the consortium. The four schools operate collectively for the purposes of administering the 11+ test. The test provider is GL Assessment and the test follows the same structure as outlined above.
There are three other grammar schools in Berkshire which are located in Reading: Kendrick Girls school and The Reading School and The Reading Girls School. These schools act independently for the admissions process and set their own individual tests.
The Kendrick 11+ paper is set by GL Assessment and follows the same pattern as The Slough Consortium and Buckinghamshire test.
The Reading School sets its own test which is referred to as a FSCE 11+ test. This test involves each child sitting three separate papers: English, Maths and Creative Writing.
Reading Girls School is a partially selective school with 42 of 180 places being offered to students that meet the selection criteria. They use a computer based CEM Select 11+ test as their exam. It lasts one hour and tests a mix of English, maths and NVR.
| Slough Grammar Schools | Gender |
| Hershal Grammar School | Mixed |
| St. Bernard’s Grammar School | Mixed |
| Upton Court Grammar School (formerly Slough Grammar School) | Mixed |
| Reading Girls School | Girls |
| Reading Grammar Schools | Gender |
| Reading School (no longer part of the consortium) | Boys |
| Kendrick School | Girls |
Buckinghamshire is one of the only counties in the UK that operates a fully selective secondary school education system. All students attending a Buckinghamshire primary school are automatically registered to take the 11+ test. There are 13 grammar schools in the region, all of which use the same 11+ test. The exam is set by GL Assessment and the follows the pattern detailed above.
| Schools | Gender |
| Aylesbury Grammar School | Boys |
| Aylesbury High School | Girls |
| Beaconsfield High School | Girls |
| Burnham Grammar School | Mixed |
| Chesham Grammar School | Mixed |
| Dr. Challoner's Grammar School | Boys |
| Dr. Challoner's High School | Girls |
| John Hampden Grammar School | Boys |
| Royal Grammar School | Boys |
| The Royal Latin School | Mixed |
| Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School | Mixed |
| Sir William Borlase School | Mixed |
| Wycombe High School | Girls |