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KENT ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS PAPER 1

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About the School

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Address — Dane Court Grammar School, Broadstairs Road, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2RT

Type of school — Mixed grammar school

Cost — Free

Pupils in school — 1300+

Places available in year 7 — 170+

Average applicants per place — 2 or more

Catchment area — Dane Court Grammar School does have a catchment area which is based on distance from the school.

Oversubscription policy — Before the application of the oversubscription criteria, children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) who name this school will be admitted.

Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:

Eligible students who are presently or were previously in Local Authority care.
Eligible students who demonstrate health and special access reasons.
Eligible students with a brother or sister already at the school.
Eligible students, on the basis of distance of the children’s home to the school, with those living nearer to the school receiving priority.

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School Summary

Dane Court Grammar School was founded in 1957 and is a mixed grammar school in Broadstairs, Kent. It became an academy in 2011 and has a large attached sixth form which is part of the Thanet Sixth Form Consortium.

The school has specialised in languages since 2003. It has completed a £20 million rebuilding programme, meaning the school now has state-of-the-art facilities.

Find the most recent Ofsted reports here.

Compare this school’s performance with other local schools here.

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Exam Information

Exam style — GL Assessment/The Kent Test

Exam topic:

Reasoning
- Verbal, non-verbal and spatial
English and maths
Creative writing

Exam length — 2 x 1 hour exams + a 40-minute writing exercise.

Pass rate — In recent years, 15,000+ applicants took the Kent test; only 6,500 passed.

Other exam information:

The reasoning, English and maths tests are multiple-choice with a separate answer sheet.
The first test will be an English and Maths paper. Each section will include a 5 minute practice exercise followed by a 25 minute test. The English section will involve a comprehension exercise as well as some additional questions drawn from a set designed to test literacy skills.
The second test will be the reasoning paper. It will take about 1 hour, including the practice sections and questions. It will contain a verbal reasoning section and a non-verbal reasoning section of roughly the same length. The non-verbal reasoning will be split into short sections, administered and timed individually.
Finally, there will also be a writing exercise which will not be marked but may be used by a local headteacher panel as part of the headteacher assessment stage of the process. 40 minutes will be allowed for the writing task, including 10 minutes planning time.

Scores:

Your child will get three standardised scores (one for English, one for maths and one for reasoning) and a total (aggregate) score.
Standardisation is a statistical process which compares your child's performance with the average performance of other children in each test. A slight adjustment is made to take account of each child's age so that the youngest are not at a disadvantage.

Pass mark:

To qualify, children needed a total score of 332 or more, with no single score lower than 108. Test scores range from 69 to 141. The highest possible total score is 423.

If your child did not reach this threshold score and their primary school referred their case to the local Head Teacher Assessment Panel, the panel will have looked at their achievement in school and examples of their work, including the writing task completed on the day, before a final decision was made.

Please note that a score of over 332 does NOT mean your child is guaranteed a place at your chosen school.

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