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Maidstone Grammar School | Free 11 Plus (11+) Practice Papers and Answers

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  1. Our Practice Papers and Answers

  2. Other Sample Papers and Answers

  3. About the School

  4. School Summary

  5. Exam Information

  6. Contact Information

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Our Practice Papers and Answers

KENT ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS PAPER 1

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The test papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to the Kent Test papers and those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Maidstone Grammar School.

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Other Sample Papers and Answers

English Paper 1

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English Paper 2

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English Paper 3

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Maths Paper 1

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Maths Paper 2

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Maths Paper 3

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Verbal Reasoning Paper 1

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Verbal Reasoning Paper 2

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Verbal Reasoning Paper 3

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Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 1

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Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 2

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Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 3

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The 11 Plus test papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Maidstone Grammar School.

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About the School

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Address — Maidstone Grammar School, Barton Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 7BT

Type of school — Boys’ grammar school

Cost — Free

Pupils in school — 1300+

Places available in year 7 — 200+

Average applicants per place — 3 or more

Catchment area —  Maidstone Grammar School does have a catchment area, which is based on distance from the school. It includes the following parishes:

Addington, Aylesford (includes Eccles), Barming, Bearsted, Bicknor, Birling, Borough Green, Boughton Malherbe, Boughton Monchelsea, Boxley, Bredhurst, Broomfield and Kingswood, Burham, Chart Sutton, Collier Street, Coxheath, Detling, Ditton, Downswood, East Farleigh, East Malling and Larkfield, East Sutton, Frinsted, Harrietsham, Headcorn, Hollingbourne, Hucking, Hunton, Ightham, Kings Hill, Langley, Leeds, Lenham (includes Lenham & Platts Heath), Leybourne, Linton, Loose, Maidstone, Marden, Mereworth, Nettlestead, Offham, Otham, Platt, Ryarsh, Snodland, Stansted, Staplehurst, Stockbury, Sutton Valence, Teston, Thurnham, Tovil, Trottiscliffe, Ulcombe, Wateringbury, West Farleigh, West Malling, West Peckham, Wichling, Wormshill, Wrotham, Wouldham, Yalding (includes Laddingford). 

Oversubscription policy — Before the application of oversubscription criteria, students with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names the school and who have passed the assessment will be admitted. As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced accordingly.

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

  1. Qualifying children who are looked after and previously looked after children.

  2. Qualifying children resident in one of the listed parishes, achieving a pass mark of 360 or more in the order of children in receipt of Free School Meals at the time of application, siblings and those living the shortest distance from the school.

  3. Other qualifying children resident in one of the listed parishes, in the order of (a) children in receipt of Free School Meals at the time of application, siblings and those living the shortest distance from the school.

  4. Other qualifying children, in the order of children in receipt of Free School Meals at the time of application, siblings and those living the shortest distance from the school.

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School Summary

Maidstone Grammar School was established in 1549 as a Latin teaching school. Today, it is an all-boys grammar school in Maidstone, Kent which still overs Latin as part of its curriculum. The school has a large attached sixth form which admits both girls and boys. 

The school specialises in Languages and is home to an Applied Learning Centre. Maidstone won the Healthy Schools award in 2011. In 1995 the Financial Times described the school as the top state-run school in the town, offering all students excellent opportunities at higher education or employment. Maidstone regularly sends students to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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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Contact information

Websitehttps://www.mgs.kent.sch.uk/ 

Contacthttps://www.mgs.kent.sch.uk/contact-us/ 

Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/MGS1549/?rf=113242458685917 

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Mgs1549 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mgs_grammar/ 

YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/user/MGSICT 

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/maidstone-grammar-school/

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