11+ test providers and local formats
Understand what test-provider guidance can establish, what remains a local school or authority decision, and where to check current 11+ arrangements.
A provider name alone may not tell you the complete local 11+ format. For GL Assessment, its own guidance says the school or local authority chooses the subjects and question-type balance and remains the source for the exact local format.[1]
GL Assessment also says a test may draw on one or more of English, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning, and Non-Verbal Reasoning, but that the authority or school chooses the subjects and balance and may add questions.[1] Its familiarisation page separately warns that local timings and question counts may differ from its materials.[2]
Read provider guidance and local rules together
Use a provider page to understand what that provider itself says. Then find the current page for the exact school, consortium, or authority and entry year. Kent, for example, says the Kent Test is valid only for Kent grammar schools and that Medway and Bexley run separate tests.[3] The Bexley Selection Test guide keeps Bexley’s current dates, format, results, and application steps together without treating them as Kent arrangements.[8]
The pages below keep those scopes visible. They do not turn an older date, historic threshold, or broad provider description into a forecast for another assessment.
Shared tests and school guides
Some areas run a shared test through a consortium or local body. The consortia and shared tests directory explains each route’s subjects, official familiarisation and participating schools, including the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex, the Sutton Selective Eligibility Test and Northern Ireland’s SEAG assessment. Each provider guide above lists the shared tests that use it. To start from one school, find its guide in the Plusling Index.
Find the right source before choosing practice
The application source checklist helps an adult record the responsible authority and current links. The past-papers guide distinguishes official familiarisation, historic papers, publisher practice, and original Plusling practice.
Once you know which provider your area uses, Plusling practice covers all four subjects it can test — start free and see how friendly 11+ practice can feel.
Current provider and regional guidance
- What is GL Assessment? 11+ subjects, format, and familiarisation
What GL Assessment means in the 11+, the subjects its tests can cover, free familiarisation, and the local details families still need to check.
- What are Quest 11+ assessments? Format, familiarisation and local tests
How Quest admissions assessments work, what its free familiarisation shows, and which shared tests use Quest.
- What is the FSCE 11+ test? Format, subjects and familiarisation
FSCE's English, maths and creative-writing test, why there are no past papers, and the areas moving to FSCE.
- What are the ISEB Pre-Tests? Subjects, format and timing
The four adaptive online tests independent schools use for Year 7 and early Year 9 entry.
- Kent Test results 2026: scores and next steps
What the three Kent Test scores and total mean, results-day steps, and the separate school application for September 2027 entry.
- Bexley Selection Test for September 2027 entry
Current London Borough of Bexley information for the 2026 test cycle, including dates, format, results, and the separate school-application step.
Primary sources
- 11+ frequently asked questions
GL Assessment
Official provider page saying that local authorities or schools choose the subjects and question-type balance, may add questions, and remain the source for the exact local format.
- Free Familiarisation Materials
GL Assessment
Official provider landing page offering six free printable PDF download sets, described by GL as 10 hours of familiarisation material. The current ZIP downloads contain one or more test booklets, separate response sheets labelled Answer Sheet, and a parent guide containing the correct-answer key. GL distinguishes the downloads from paid practice books, says local timings and question counts may differ, and restricts third-party reproduction or distribution without consent.
- Register for the Kent Test
Kent County Council
Official 2026 Kent Test and September 2027 entry information. It confirms the closed registration window, test dates, Kent-only scope, and the current email route for families whose child was not registered.
- Prepare for the Kent Test
Kent County Council
Official description of the 2026 Kent Test papers, timings, writing exercise, familiarisation material, and alternative-format route.
- Apply for a Kent grammar school place
Kent County Council
Official explanation that a suitable assessment does not guarantee an offer, the school must still be named on the application, and applicants outside Kent use their home authority's form.
- Kent Test results
Kent County Council
Official results page confirming that result emails were sent on Thursday 15 October 2026; the first-class-post route where no email address was provided; the next-day primary-school route for a missing result; the three standardised subject scores and aggregate; the small age adjustment; the 2026 grammar-school threshold of at least 345 in total with no individual score below 111; the 69 to 141 individual-score range and maximum total of 423; and the post-refusal appeal route.
- Secondary school places
Kent County Council
Official application guidance for children starting Year 7 in September 2027, including up to four ordered preferences, the Monday 2 November 2026 deadline, separate school forms, the Monday 1 March 2027 offer date, and the caveat that exact email delivery time cannot be guaranteed.
- About the Bexley Selection Test
London Borough of Bexley
Official information for parents covering the 2026 Bexley Selection Test scope, provider, subjects, booklet structure, timings, familiarisation links, results, relationship to school applications, and the post-results Headteacher Review route. It lists result emails from 4pm on Friday 2 October 2026, tells families to check the junk folder if the result email is missing, and lists selectiontests@bexley.gov.uk for test enquiries. It says families should still name a grammar-school preference when a review is requested; the separate 2026 review-process page provides the request dates and outcome timetable.
